Or so the history books will probably say once someone gets around to writing them. All Mihalis knows is the world he has been raised into. It's not a bad world, as things ago, he has a big and loving family, but there is the ongoing 'war' that promises to be on-going for a good many years to come.Raised to the blade by his mother, and taught not only her ways as well as a good many of the ways of her people, but also the ways of his father's other wives, as well as the ways of his magic, Mihalis has had a very thorough education. Even if a fair deal of that education is in the arts of war.But all he really wants to do is to prove himself. To go out into the world and show that yes, he is his father's son, and that yes, he is his own man, to find his own way in the world.WARNING: "Mihalis" does contain many of those things that the previous series was known for: Bad jokes, poor modern culture references, obscure song references, violence, and yes, what you've all been waiting for: Sex. Now SOME PEOPLE don't seem to UNDERSTAND that these warnings are done as much as a joke as a 'Spoiler' alert, to alert the PRUDES that yes, like all MODERN science fiction and urban fantasy stories, there is Sex in the story! Heaven forefend that these quivering fragile flowers should read any modern romance! I dare say they'd die straight-away from the non-stop kinkfest that is modern romance!So SCREW THEM! YES! There is all sorts of sordid and kinky stuff that's been done while I wrote this book and most of it was done by YOU! You Dear readers! So let us NOT go into this cold dark night alone or afraid! Because we know what that dreaded noise in the shadows is! That Moaning and Groaning and the rattling of chains! That noise is US!(Have Fun).

    She’s okay with that. She does not need a male. There are many things that fulfill her. Things that she is passionate about; like her job as a hunter. What could be more important than feeding the tribe? Nothing! If she wants to rut, she can have her pick of the males – just as long as she doesn’t expect any of them to stay. They all want to settle with human females. Humans who can give them offspring…and give the tribe a future. It makes perfect sense to her. She’s okay with it.Her feelings change when she comes into heat for the first time. Why now? Why her? Instantly, every unmated male in her tribe comes sniffing. They all want her. They want to mate her and to get her with child. All. Of. Them. Anger infuses every last cell of her body. An anger she never knew she felt. Snubbed for years and now they want her. Now they see her. They can all go straight to hell!Her king has other plans. The tribe needs offspring. They need female young, which is something the humans cannot provide. He instructs her to choose a male…any male, and to do so right away. She doesn’t have long. Thunder wants her impregnated before the end of her heat cycle.No cheating! Contains hot alpha males and therefore strong sexual themes/language.

    Unfortunately, the skills he honed to keep the peace aren't much use in the cutthroat world of city politics, and a recent civil ruling is forcing the integration of the once exclusively human NHIC!Velise is a beautiful arachne noble sent to the human-ruled city of Daytau as part of a diplomatic boondoggle to prove her political skills to her matriarch. A chance encounter with Andrew leaves her wanting to know more, and the integration gives her an opportunity both to sate her curiosity and advance her ambitions.Yet the barroom brawl Andrew diffused for her sake was no accident, and city hall would love nothing more than to end his career. Forced by circumstance both to protect and rely on a monster, Andrew comes to an uncomfortable realization.Velise might just be everything he ever wanted in a woman ...Warning: This book does not pan to waving curtains and fade to black. Those uninterested or under the age of eighteen are strongly warned of explicit consensual content.

    For his grandmother was tied up with an ancient legacy that Jimmy must face whether he believes in it or not. And he finds that magic and chemical engineering are not so incompatible . . . especially when it comes to beautiful, voluptuous demons.Demon Hunter: Birthright is the first novel in the Demon Hunter series and contains explicit adult scenes and themes of harem, black magic and demonology.

    He woke up without his memory in a world that is filled with Demons, Djinns, Phoenix, Fire Giants, and many others.During his time on Exhulm, he is bullied for being a non-magical being, making his life difficult. Around his 18th birthday, things change. HIs magic presents itself and makes his life even more problematic. Kristjan realizes that maybe not having magic wasn't so bad after all.

    

    Hired to find out who is stirring up the Sioux and sabotaging the Kansas Pacific line as it builds westward, Faraday sends tough young agent Daniel Britten to the railhead, where he finds himself embroiled with surveyors, track layers, buffalo hunters, and a pair of beautiful young women. But there’s a killer stalking the railhead as well, and not only the fate of the railroad but also Britten’s very life depends on him uncovering the truth.An epic Western adventure full of historical sweep and gun-blazing action.

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    He also has half a leg thanks to an IED cutting his career short at twenty-four, and he works as a security guard in a high security government building. They’re doing some cutting-edge research and testing on weapons technology and other scientific breakthroughs.Not that it mattered to him, he was no scientist. At least, it didn’t matter until they ripped open a hole in time and space, and it sent him hurtling toward an alternate world. One of magic and swords, but a magic based in science. One of the five universal forces as opposed to the four we currently know about.It’s going to be a crazy ride, in a very strange land and dynastic empire with a very different culture, and he’ll have to do his best merely to survive.Warning: This is a full-sized erotic epic fantasy novel that contains a small number of explicit sex scenes. It also has a mixed harem and polyamory theme, if that isn’t for you than don’t buy this book. This book is told in the first person from William’s point of view, and is the first book of a three novel series.

    His life is about to undergo a major change, as he and Cassie run across Mara, the priestess of a goddess. His attentions and ambitions will undergo a shift, as new opportunities arise.If that wasn’t enough, the balance will be threatened once more, and Katie’s going to need Sean’s help to fix it. The world is getting better from emergence after five years ago, but its still a pretty dark place in a lot of ways without technology and with the country broken up into splinter kingdoms, authorities, and even some old ones from the remnant of the United States government.Join Sean, Cassie, Mara, Katie, John, and Bria as they meet a new threat to the balance, and perhaps the world itself.Author’s Note and Warning: This is the first book in a sub-trilogy in the Epic series Return of Magic. The three Life Sorcerer books will focus mostly on Sean and he’ll have the lion’s share of page time, but other points of view will be present as well.This is also an Epic Fantasy adventure featuring a harem and concepts of polyamory, with both MF and MFF scenes of an explicit nature. If that’s not your cup of tea, don’t read this book. You have been warned.

    Appendix N also explores and contextualizes the ambitious lyrical excursions that helped set the adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as we know it today.Including tales by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, Michael Moorcock, C. L. Moore, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman.

    The two titans of horror and comedy untie in comics for the very first time! Dynamite Entertainment Proudly Presents… Elvira Meets Vincent Price!Elvira is back, with her most historic AND greatest costar ever! The ghost of Vincent Price is a spirit with a mission, and only the Mistress of the Dark can help! The Apocalypse is coming, and it’s going to be live-streamed for binge-watching, but a long-lost movie can save the world… if only the movie star specter and the horror hostess with the mostest can find it in time! Thrills, chills, and all sorts of terrible puns!Issue #1 features an all-star cast of cover artists, including fan favorites Dave Acosta, John Royle, series artist Juan Samu and a stunning photo of the gorgeous lady herself – Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!

    This includes The Colorado Kid (2005), Joyland (2013), and his newest novel, Later (2021). It will also feature three exclusive art cards showing a variant cover of each book: the original Glen Orbik cover for The Colorado Kid, the Robert McGinnis limited-edition hardcover cover for Joyland and the Greg Manchess limited-edition hardcover cover for Later.Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a 25-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving The Colorado Kid, a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine. Later: the son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability, Jamie can see things no one else can. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

    

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    Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of the Mob-connected DiPreta family and the Mob thinks maybe Nolan can make it stop. Maybe he can -- for a six-figure fee.Originally published as two separate novels (and unavailable in bookstores for 40 years!), DOUBLE DOWN finds Nolan and Jon pursuing the American dream in their inimitable criminal fashion. Flying high off his recent return after more than three decades in SKIM DEEP, Nolan is one of MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins' most unforgettable characters, and DOUBLE DOWN is Nolan at his hard-boiled, larcenous best.

    America! Spectrum! Blue Marvel! Together, they form the ultimate super team, finding and fixing problems beyond the limits of the infinite! From cosmic forces lurking on Earth to whatever waits beyond the omniverse, the Ultimates start with the impossible — and take it from there! Their first task: ending the planet-eating threat of Galactus…forever! But spacetime is broken — and to solve that, the Ultimates can’t just think within the box. They need to go outside reality! But when they learn that Eternity itself has been chained, the team discovers a threat far larger and older than everything that exists! Can the Ultimates rise to the ultimate challenge, and save the very concept of reality from being absorbed and rewritten?COLLECTING: Ultimates (2015) 1-12; Ultimates 2 (2016) 1-9, 100; material from Avengers (2015) 0

    His life had just undergone a major change, as he and Cassie were joined by Mara, the priestess of a goddess. Mara was both their ally and new lover, and things were going well there. The matter of the twins is still a sore subject for Sean, and he’ll have to face the past, while Cassie wrestles with her own demons.The balance in the world was set right once again, but a new major threat approaches from the west that will test him and his allies, as they deal with other situations. If that wasn’t enough, the elven and dragon council decide that he needs to be investigated, that Sean was either much worse than they’d thought… or not nearly as bad as they thought. The investigator and ambassador they send will be trying on his patience, at the very least.Join Sean, Cassie, Mara, Emily, Lori, Katie, Lin, Kim, and Bria, and welcome Sy'lia, as they meet a new threat to their territory and way of life, and perhaps the world itself.Author’s Note and Warning: This is the second book in a sub-trilogy in the Epic series Return of Magic. The three Life Sorcerer books will focus mostly on Sean and he’ll have the lion’s share of page time, but other points of view will be present as well.This is also an Epic Fantasy adventure featuring a harem and concepts of polyamory, with some MF to MFFFF scenes of an explicit nature. If that’s not your cup of tea, don’t read this book. You have been warned.

    From dark fantasy to sword-and-sorcery, heroic fantasy to weird history, here is a magic bagful of mystic trips and fantastic adventures. Avenging warriors defy the grip of death, wizards wander between the worlds, and savage hordes storm the gates of elder cities. Weird sorcery twists the fabric of reality, strange creatures run wild, and swords ring like thunder in the storm of battle. Eleven unforgettable excursions into the boundless realms of weird fantasy.

    WollheimThroughout her forty-year career, Tanith Lee proved herself adept at numerous genres, including high fantasy, horror, science fiction, and combinations thereof. One of her specialties was the variety of heroic fantasy known as sword-and-sorcery. Novels such as The Birthgrave, Night’s Master, and The Storm Lord are highly regarded by both fans and critics, but she has a wealth of short stories to her credit as well. Sixteen of Tanith’s tales of swords and sorcery appear in this collection. When you read them, you will discover why she deserves such exalted titles as “Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy” and The Empress of Dreams.Stories included:“Odds Against the Gods”“Sleeping Tiger”“The Demoness”“The Sombrus Tower”“Winter White”“In the Balance”“Northern Chess”“Southern Lights”“Mirage and Magia”“The Three Brides of Hamid-Dar”“The Pain of Glass”“These Beasts”“Two Lions, a Witch, and the War-Robe”“A Tower of Arkrondurl”“The Woman in Scarlet”“Evillo the Uncunning”

    Dan Brereton's lush, innovative, action-packed stories of supernatural menace and gritty heroics are finally collected in this first volume omnibus edition, starting with "Black Planet", the Eisner-nominated graphic novel which kicked off years of captivating weird tales of horror and crime.The Nocturnals revolves around the mysterious quest of underworld enforcer and occult figure, Doc Horror; his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl) who carries a pumpkin full of haunted toys; the Gunwitch, a silent, two-gun revenant with an itch to kill monsters; the lissome wraith Polychrome, and a host of hard-boiled inhuman players battling hidden evils lurking on the outskirts of human knowledge.Collects the previously published Nocturnals volumes: Black Planet, Witching Hour, Carnival of Beasts, Troll Bridge, and The Dark Forever.

    

    Journey to Luna, Mars, and worlds even more distant with these classic tales by five masters of adventure science fiction!Stories included:“The Temple of Earth” by Poul Anderson“World of the Dark Dwellers” by Edmond Hamilton“The Eyes of Thar” by Henry Kuttner“The Empress of Mars” by Ross Rocklynne“Man of Two Worlds” by Bryce Walton

    

    This month brings you an exciting crop of stories, including the first in Brad Younie's magical world of Sharkam, an H.P. Lovecraft inspired piece by the talented David. J. West, and another adventure featuring Redgar the barbarian and his mysterious young charge, Natali. Don't miss the latest issue of Savage Realms!"Fantastic Sword and Sorcery Action!""I hope for a long future for this fun monthly magazine.""If you need your fix of larger than life, sword wielding hero’s and damsels in distress, look no further!"Fans of Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, and Karl Edward Wagner will love this new fantasy fiction adventure magazine.

    The Troubleshooters is an action-adventure tabletop roleplaying game set in an exciting and adventurous 1960s in the style of Franco-Belgian comics.

    They give chase!Covers by: Marat Mychaels, Joseph Michael Linsner, Stephen Mooney, Ani-Mia (Cosplay) and Bettie Page (Vintage Pin-Up Photo)Stephen Mooney has worked for DC, Marvel and a host of other publishers, but is perhaps best-known as the creator (AND writer AND artist) of Half-Past Danger!

    But will betrayal from those closest to him, and shocking revelations from his own past, be what breaks him?Collects:Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman #5-8Merrick & Crowe #1

    

    

    Howard's famous Cimmerian! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story as he intended! The Cimmerian Vol 3 includes two complete stories, Iron Shadows in the Moon, and The Man-Eaters of Zamboula, plus bonus material, including the original prose stories, in one hardcover collection!In Iron Shadows in the Moon, a young woman in danger is pursued by her vile master. Conan, whose family has just been wiped out by this same master, puts an end to the beauty's pursuer, and saves her with a blow of his sword. Bound by fate, the couple decide to hit the road together. Their journey takes them to an island where they discover strange ruins inhabited by dark magic. Their paradise-like refuge soon turns into a suffocating nightmare where shadows lurk. Who knows the extent of the dangers that lie there? They will quickly learn that on an island, the biggest threat does not always come from the outside... Iron Shadows in the Moon reveals the genius of its author in describing universes as singular as they are mysterious. With her line, both delicate and powerful, Virginie Augustin illustrates this oppressive and mystical atmosphere, and gives the story a new graphic breath.In The Man-Eaters of Zamboula, the Cimmerian finds himself in the land of a thousand and one nights! A crossroads of beliefs, languages ​​and cultures, the mythical trading city of Zamboula is also the scene of many dark legends. Upon paying the city a visit, Conan is warned of the dangers of Aram Baksh's home. It is said that most of the foreigners who stay there disappear under obscure circumstances...and it is precisely there that the Cimmerian is spending the night. But by lifting the veil on these mysterious cases of kidnappings, the Cimmerian will discover another secret, even more terrible, linked to the whole of the city of Zamboula... A story imbued with orientalism and macabre witchcraft, The Man-Eaters of Zamboula offers writer/artist Gess the opportunity to deliver his vision of Robert E. Howard's hero in a comic book story of exotic and dark beauty.

    The greatest tales! The most amazing storytellers! Red Sonja, like you’ve NEVER seen before…all presented in beautiful black, white, and red!Superstar GAIL SIMONE returns to The She-Devil With A Sword with artist WALTER GEOVANI, for a tale spanning Sonja’s entire life…DEARBHLA KELLY and SOO LEE spin a story of interlaced intrigue and savage adventure…HASSAN OTSMANE-ELAHOU and JONATHAN LAU feature a conundrum for Sonja, in the form of a foreboding, fire-breathing dragon…

    The greatest tales, the best creators, brought to you in beautiful black, white and red! RON MARZ and EMILIANA PINNA push Sonja to her limits! ALEX MOORE presents a cascading adventure of the seas most high! And FRANK TIERI and LEE FERGUSON will take you on a journey into darkness seen by none who’ve lived to tell the tale…