Hercules: Shadows of Olympus — Book Four

The Augean Stables & Stymphalian Birds

Elis smells like a wound that has never been cleaned. For thirty years, King Augeas has kept three thousand cattle while allowing his stables to remain uncleansed. The dung has grown into hills. The rivers have turned brown. Children downstream are dying from poisoned water.

Hercules must clean the stables in ONE day. He does not use a shovel. He uses two rivers.

But when he finishes, Augeas betrays him. He refuses to pay and banishes his own son, Phyleus, for telling the truth.

And north, at Lake Stymphalia, the birds are waiting. Bronze feathers. Bronze beaks. Bronze claws. Birds that eat flesh, drawn to the dead and the burial grounds left behind by years of suffering.

Hercules must drive them away—not with a sword, but with Athena's bronze rattles, patience, and the help of Iolaus, whose arrows carry the poison of the Hydra.

A Gothic Fantasy Novel about cleaning, betrayal, and healing. About how hunger, not monsters, is the real enemy.

WHAT YOU GET

• Complete Ebook — EPUB Format

• Prologue + 11 Chapters + Epilogue

• Written by Ahmer Anis

• Available through: Getly.store

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue: The Filth That Remembers

Chapter 1: The King of Dung

Chapter 2: The River That Would Not Run

Chapter 3: Thirty Years of Filth

Chapter 4: The Plague Pit

Chapter 5: The Road to Stymphalia

Chapter 6: The Battle of Stymphalia

Chapter 7: The Betrayal at Sunset

Chapter 8: The Lake of Bronze Feathers

Chapter 9: The Lake Restored

Chapter 10: The Rattle of Athena

Chapter 11: Blood on the Water

Epilogue: The Seventh Labour Calls

This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, and events are imagined by the author.

Copyright © 2026 Ahmer Anis. All rights reserved.

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