Odd True Tales, Volume 5

By Mimi Riser

The fifth installment of the “Odd True Tales” series... This volume focuses exclusively on the Inquisition, and is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. It’s divided into four chapters: Profit & Pain, Cries in the Dark, A Miscellany of Madness, Letter from Hell...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mimi Riser
• Release date: Jul 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311662811

Mimi Riser

Mimi Riser is a longtime author of fiction and nonfiction, including several series and spanning a variety of genres (with flavors ranging from sweet to spicy hot). Her books celebrate the upbeat, the offbeat, and “beating the odds.” She began life in the urban northeast, but now resides in the rural southwest with her best friend & husband Rob.

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The fifth installment of the Odd True Tales series… This volume focuses exclusively on the Inquisition, and is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. It’s divided into four parts: Profit & Pain, Cries in the Dark, A Miscellany of Madness, Letter from Hell…

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ODD TRUE TALES

Volume 5

Mimi & Rob Riser

www.mimiriser.com

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Chapter 1

Profit & Pain

If you’re looking for true horror stories, you need look no further than the dark chronicles of what history calls the Inquisition. Begun initially to ferret out and dispose of heretical Christian sects, the Inquisition soon turned its sights on the so-called heresy of witchcraft and proceeded to terrorize Europe for several hundred years. When Protestantism arose, it jumped on the burning bandwagon and conducted its own witch-hunts,