Shades of Rome

At Saturnalia a couple inadvertently make an offering at a long-lost sacred well, with horrifying consequences. Two archaeology students go in search of an unlucky altar on Hadrian's Wall. A historian uncovers evidence of medieval idolatry in a Suffolk village. An Oxford academic narrowly escapes disaster after attempting to read a curse tablet. The de-consecration of a church spells disaster for a village built on top of a Roman town. A criminal who illegally excavates Roman artefacts suffers supernatural retribution. A young woman dies in a reconstructed temple of Apollo. In these seven supernatural stories by historian F. K. Young the dark powers of Roman Britain, buried for nearly two thousand years, are waking up ...

At Saturnalia a couple inadvertently make an offering at a long-lost sacred well, with horrifying consequences. Two archaeology students go in search of an unlucky altar on Hadrian's Wall. A historian uncovers evidence of medieval idolatry in a Suffolk village. An Oxford academic narrowly escapes disaster after attempting to read a curse tablet. The de-consecration of a church spells disaster for a village built on top of a Roman town. A criminal who illegally excavates Roman artefacts suffers supernatural retribution. A young woman dies in a reconstructed temple of Apollo. In these seven supernatural stories by historian F. K. Young the dark powers of Roman Britain, buried for nearly two thousand years, are waking up ...