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Title: The Old Man's Request
Subtitle: Utgarda Trilogy, Book 1
Author: Joab Stieglitz
Narrator: Bolton Marsh
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-17
Publisher: Rantings of a Wandering Mind
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:
50 years ago, a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students, now a trustee of Reister University, enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean OMalley are all indebted to the ailing trustee for their positions. Together, they pursue the knowledge and resources needed to perform the ritual.
Hampered by the old mans greedy son, the wizened director of the university library, and a private investigator with a troubled past, can they perform the ritual and banish the entity?
The Old Mans Request is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the first part of the Utgarda Trilogy.

Members Reviews:
NEW VOICE IN FANTASY SUSPENSE
In the summer of 1929, three people are summoned to the hospital by an ailing college professor. Fearing his time is short; Prof. Jason Longborough confides a terrible secret to his prorge, Anna Rykov, a Russian anthropologist, Dr. Harold Lamb, a general practioner and Father Sean OâMalley, a Catholic priest versed in the churchâs exorcism rituals. Fifty years earlier, Longbrough, then a college student, and several friends, made the foolish decision to dable in the occult; the end result being they actually summoned a horrific demon named Urgarda. Trapped in our world since that time, the shape-shifting monster has kept his existence secret by murdering those with any knowledge of presence.
The old professor realizes it is his responsibility to somehow re-summon the demon to the abandoned farmhouse where he first appeared and there destroy him. The task is too difficult for one person and thus Longborough brings his three young colleagues into his plans. But time has run out for the guilt ridden teacher and after relating his wild story to the trio, he dies.
Initially all three question whether the old manâs tale was factual or the rantings of a failing mind. Still, to ignore it would have serious consequence; chief among these allowing the demon to continue his evil machinations in our dimension. Bit by bit, each of the three begin to accept the mission that has been foisted on them and the real horror it portents. Having no other recourse, it is up to them to carry out Longboroughâs final request and confront the beast.
Joab Stieglitz offers up a really well crafted thriller filled with enough suspense and action to adroitly move his plot along. Anna, Dr. Lamb and Father OâMalley arenât superheroes, but rather good people caught up in an affair far beyond anything any of them had ever experienced before. It will take all their courge and mutual trust in one another to summon the demon and defeat it. If that is even possible? âThe Old Manâs Request,â is a sure fire page turned. Need I say more?

If you are a fan of Lovecraft's style of horror, you will enjoy this. If you don't know who that is read this then go find out.
If you are familiar with and have enjoyed H. P. Lovecraft's horror fiction, in particular the Cthulhu Mythos stories, which were added to by August Derleth, Frank Long and many others, you will know what you are getting with Stieglitz's "The Old Man's Request".