Lost Stories

Cover of the German first edition

Lost Stories (in the original The Lost Stories , English for "The Lost Tales") is the title of a loose collection of short side narratives from the Fantasy -Buchserie The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel the Irish author Michael Scott . These are not directly related to the main plot, but tell events from the lives of some of the characters in the series.

So far, two stories have been published as e-books , The Death of Joan of Arc (2010) and Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas (2011). In October 2015 these were published in German as a paperback by cbj under the title Lost Stories .

The death of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is to be executed

The death of Johanna von Orléans (original title: The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story from The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel ) was published on August 24, 2010 by Delacorte Press ( Random House , USA), but was available to registered users of the official FanForums already available for free on December 25, 2009. The e-book has 25 pages and is told by the English officer William von York as part of his will.

The story takes place in Rouen on May 31, 1431 and is briefly addressed in volume 2 of the main story . The characters Scathach and Johanna von Orléans also appear there, William von York is new.

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William of York orders the guards in Rouen to prevent any disturbance of the execution of the Maid of Orléans. But shortly before the execution, a single horsewoman approaches the city. The guards fail to kill or stop them.

The rider is Scathach. She penetrates Rouen, fights all the soldiers alone and finally frees the captured Joan of Arc from the stake. Without anyone being able to do anything, the two women leave the city almost unscathed and disappear.

All eyewitnesses are then warned that they would be burned as heretics if they spoke about what they saw. Another woman is executed in place of Joan of Arc. William of York feels remorse and returns to his native England. Only in his will (“on the 13th day of the year of the Lord 1481 ”) does he break the silence.

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William of York : The English archer once fought against France , supported by his youngest son William. His eldest son is Richard and his daughter is 19 years old. William of York witnessed the execution of Joan of Arc in Rouen in 1431, where he saw how she was freed by Scathach, whereupon he left the army. He died on October 13, 1481 at the age of 70.

background

The story was the first work in the history of the publisher to be published exclusively as an e-book.

Billy the Kid and the Vampires of Las Vegas

Photography by Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid and the Vampires of Las Vegas (Original title: Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas: A Lost Story from The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel ) was published on November 22, 2011 by Delacorte Press ( Random House , USA). The book has 56 pages, divided into 19 chapters and a prologue ("from Notes & Scraps , the diary of Billy the Kid").

The story takes place a few years before the first volume of the main narrative ("possibly September 2005 "). The characters Scathach , Billy the Kid , Morrigan , Quetzalcoatl and the Cucubuths also appear there, new are Cuchulain / Setanta , who was mentioned there, and the vampires.

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Scathach threatens Elder Quetzalcoatl to destroy his realm of shadows if he does not hand her the Pandora's box that is in his possession. The older one complies with her request and sends his servant Billy the Kid to Scathach with the can. Meanwhile, the warrior princess receives a mysterious phone call in which her former lover, Cuchulain , whom she believed to be dead, asks her for help because he is in the hands of the vampires of Vegas .

When Billy the Kid hands over Pandora's box to Scathach, she simply hires him as a chauffeur to take it to Las Vegas. After a long journey, they meet a group of Cucubuths, who defeat the two with ease. In Las Vegas they meet the crow goddess Morrigan, who foretells Scathach her imminent death and then gives her the address of a hotel to which she should go. Billy wants to support Scathach and therefore goes into the entrance area of the hotel, while the shadowy one climbs up the facade with the help of a manrikigusari. He must defend himself against an army of vampyres and cucubuths. On the fiftieth floor of the hotel, Scathach finds Cuchulain and wants to free him - but he declares that he has returned to his original name Setanta and that he is the lord of the vampire army.

When Cuchulain fought the Witch Queen's army thousands of years ago, Scathach and Aoife were too late to help and then thought he was dead. But the Morrigan took him to the shadowy kingdom of Tir na nOg , where he was immortalized by the elder Crom Cruach and had to serve this for a long time. As lord of the Vampyr and Cucubuth armies, he was looking for Scathach to take revenge on her for her "betrayal". Quetzalcoatl offered to reveal Scathach's whereabouts if he let loose his armies on San Francisco and Los Angeles at the right time. Setanta lured Scathach into the trap.

With the deadly spear Gáe Bolga he wants to kill the warrior after a long fight, but she catches the spear in flight and kills Setanta with it. Billy the Kid, meanwhile, has escaped the vampyres because morning came at the last moment. Together they decide to visit Tir na nOg in the near future and open Pandora's box there.

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Cuchulain / Setanta : He was trained by Scathach, who fell in love with him. But he fell in love with her sister Aoife. When he fell at the Battle of Ulster , Scathach and Aoife fought. But shortly before his death, Cuchulain was brought to Crom Cruach by the Morrigan, who made him immortal and whom he had to serve for a thousand years. From then on he called himself Setanta and wanted revenge on Scathach, by whom he felt betrayed. He sets up an army of vampyrs and Cucubuths in Las Vegas with whom he wants to control the west coast of America, and lures Scathach to him, who however defeats him and kills him with the Gáe Bolga.
Vampyre : They are blood-sucking vampires .

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Michael Scott: Lost Stories . cbj , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-40299-3 (American English, original title: Joan Arc / Billy the Kid . Translated by Ursula Höfker).
Michael Scott: The Death of Joan of Arc . Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2010, ISBN 978-0-375-89992-8 (American English).
Michael Scott: Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas . Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-97555-3 (American English).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Book in the publisher's catalog. Random House Publishing Group , accessed May 5, 2015 .
↑ Announcement on the official fansite ( s ). Retrieved May 4, 2012.
↑ press release . PR Newswire. August 24, 2010. Retrieved August 12, 2012.

[1] Book in the publisher's catalog. Random House Publishing Group , accessed May 5, 2015 .

[2] Announcement on the official fansite ( s ). Retrieved May 4, 2012.

[3] ress release . PR Newswire. August 24, 2010. Retrieved August 12, 2012.


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