Wehr
Wolff Castle
The
Wehr Wolff Chronicles Book 1
by
B. Bentley Summers
Genre:
Historical Horror, LGBT
During
the rise of Nazi Germany, Hagen Messer joins the Royal Air Force as
an American soldier who specializes in tracking. He’s attached to
British commandos and given a seemingly simple mission—to find a
captive and destroy a dam—but everything goes awry. Hagen’s plane
crashes into Germany’s Wehr Forest and he has to use his
extrasensory abilities to track the captive to nearby Wehr Wolff
Castle, a secret Nazi base where vile experiments are being
conducted.
Hagen
and his surviving team members must sneak into the castle and devise
a way to destroy the experimental labs creating diabolical creatures.
Hagen is horrified to find Nazis and scientists with no scruples, and
at the most inconvenient time, he learns that he may be in love with
one of his teammates, an Irishman named Liam. In order to protect his
love and his friends, Hagen must feign nonchalance amidst pure
degeneracy and suspicion. Hagen soon discovers, though, that he is in
over his head.
What
may not only redeem him, but also save his lover and friends, is a
childhood past and a darkness lurking deep inside him, just waiting
to be engaged.
Wehr Wolff Nazi Lab
They were in a new corridor that had torches
set close to each other, high on the wall. The worn-out stone floor had turned
to marble. The area had been renovated. High-powered lights set in the ceiling
replaced the torches. They turned a couple of corners, and the disturbing
howling noises diminished and then were gone.
They came to a more compact room with a small
squad of SS troopers. A vaulted door was to one side. The troopers stood at
attention while one rotated the dial on a combination lock and twisted on a
circular metallic wheel that served as a door handle, then yanked. There was a
quick release of air, and the vaulted door swung open.
Dr. Mengele's expression was animated,
reminding Hagen of a child who was about to enter a candy store.
The Nazi doctor scanned everyone in the room
and finally rested his gaze on Roesia. "Here is where the real work is
being done."
They were ushered through the door. Hagen felt
faint—the air reeked of chemicals, ammonia being dominant. He was still on an
elevated walkway, but in this location, it was less than ten feet down to the
floor. The ceiling was over fifty feet above. A vast laboratory spread out
before them, which was comprised of numerous cubicles, divided by thin walls
and stopping at a solid wall farther back. Between the walkway where Hagen
stood and the vast laboratory was an open space that had a charcoal-coarse
surface; On it were several bleached white metallic pods, about fifteen feet in
height and length. The pods were spread apart, and all of them were interconnected
by narrow metal meshed walkways. A few guards, rifles held across their chests,
were bent down, staring through holes to the tops of the pods.
Flush to the laboratory cubicles was a raised
platform that was around forty feet in length. A man was at a control center,
which had multiple levers, along with hydraulic hoses attached to a console.
Behind this station for personnel was the largest pod in the room, abutting the
lab wall—it dwarfed the other pods in height, width, and length.
A squeal caught Hagen's attention, and he
turned toward the far end of the room.
Two soldiers dragged a naked one-armed man
over the walkway to a pod at the end, and yelled, "Pod
Ten!"
Hagen directed his attention back to the
person at the main console. The man pulled down a lever. Hagen snapped his
focus back to the one-armed prisoner; a hatch popped open at the top of what
must have been pod ten. The guards pushed the person into the hole, and the lid
closed with a loud clank. A scream ensued from inside the pod, and then dead
silence. The SS officers around Hagen laughed and clinked their wineglasses.
Dr. Mengele was oblivious to the show at the
end of the room, but stepped down the narrow staircase and across the floor
with all of its pods. Everyone followed. A few personnel wearing white cotton
coats carried clipboards and monitored the varied pods; they peered through
small windows on the pods and jotted down some notes.
Hagen stared back at the pods. What are in those?
Dr. Mengele stepped up to the platform and came
to the console where the personnel monitored various gauges.
Dr. Mengele extended his arm, and said,
"In these pods are the original creatures we captured inside Wehr Forest.
We had more, but many have died, unfortunately—not for lack of being fed, either.
We tried to train a few, but they are incorrigible, ignorant beasts. But too
precious to be put down."
Hagen stepped over to the largest pod on the
platform, close to the console, and leaned over to look inside a small,
thick-plated glass window. Hagen gasped at the beast inside. Memories returned
with a thunderbolt, of him kneeling down beside his brother. Hagen willed the
old remembrance to vanish. He touched his forehead and stepped back, bumping
into someone. He turned around. It was Roesia. She had her hands clasped in
front of her. Hagen again peered inside the pod. The wolf was colossal in size
and tried its best to pace back and forth in its limited space. It appeared
agitated as it snapped its fierce amber gaze toward Hagen. It had no hint of
mutations and reminded him of the wolves he had seen earlier in the day. The
creature's nose flared, its eyes burned bright, and it bared its teeth. The
wolf brought its head back and howled. Even outside the container, everyone in
the room cringed and covered their ears.
Bryce
is a psychologist, author, and the founder of Queer Sense
Theory.
Bryce
writes popular fiction genres meant for all audiences under Bryce
Bentley Summers, and pens gay fiction under B. Bentley Summers,
although he'd argue that anyone would enjoy his gay fiction
pieces.
Bryce's
full time work is at the Veteran Affairs where he has been employed
for five years. He has extensive history of working with people
diagnosed with PTSD and he used these experiences when writing Fresh
Meat.
The
novel, Fresh Meat, recently won Dan Poynter's Global eBook Awards for
best gay fiction. This piece is more than just a book, but embraces
gay identity while deploring the hateful violence that happens in the
U.S. prison system, and across the world. The book parallels the
vicious Man-Punk prison system to the long ago abolished American
Slavery System. However, Fresh Meat is not non-fiction, but fiction,
and it's genre is best described as Supernatural Horror.
Rotville
and The Zombie Squad, are two of Bryce's recent completions. The
Zombie Squad is a teen Post-Apocalyptic Thriller that recently
received Reader's Favorite 5-Stars. This novel has humor and is fast
pace, that follows four teens in New Orleans who find themselves not
only chased by psycho gangsters, but in the middle of zombocalypse.
Rotville is a new adult/ adult Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic Horror that
takes place in the near future, in a city called Rotville where
people with a rot disease are quarantined. Inside this city is the
mega prison Colleseo, where inhumane experiments are carried out on
inmates. It's also the birthplace of Dylan, a super soldier who must
fight his way out, save a couple of youths from the new deadly
mutants, and keep from being re-caught by the greedy director.
Bryce
is also the author of the fiction Young Adult Dark Fantasy/ Sci-Fi
series AMEN TO ROT. The novel NYTE GOD is the conclusion to this
series. The Amen to Rot series and Nyte God pit Ace and his friends
against alien invaders who are turning humans into mutant
creatures.
Bryce
authors popular fiction with a style that entices readers of all
backgrounds to consume, and makes every attempt to make his
characters diverse.
As
noted, Bryce does dabble in gay fiction, and pens it under B. Bentley
Summers, though in truth, these works are meant for everyone to read.
Bryce is the founder of Queer Sense, a theory that describes how
people form attitudes. The theory provides insight into how specific
components in cultural contexts shape our beliefs and values, which
ultimately form our attitudes. The nonfiction book, QUEER SENSE: How
Are Attitudes Formed? A Revolutionary Guide for Teens, Parents,
Mental Health Professionals and Anyone Interested in Queer Theory, is
due out by 2016.
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