Best of
Sword-And-Sorcery

2019

Wardens of Issalia: The Complete Epic Series


Jeffrey L. Kohanek - 2019
    ________________________________1,300 pages of MAGIC, INTRIGUE, TWISTS, and BETRAYAL________________________________Meet the Wardens of Issalia:Quinn's relentless determination fuels her desire to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Trained as a spy, she infiltrates an enemy stronghold. If only she knew whom she could trust.Brandt is a prince who lacks a sense of purpose. As a warden, he is forged into something more, building upon his fearless nature and his ability to wield frightening magic. Will his courage be enough when the fate of thousands hangs in the balance?Cassie, Brandt's twin sister, possesses magic abilities unlike anything recorded. What new ability will she discover next?Everson is an awkward, disabled teen and a brilliant inventor, melding magic with science. His greatest discovery could liberate him and change the world...or, it could destroy everything. Puri, a highly skilled archer, is assigned the role of ranger, destined for missions rife with danger. How many will die if she fails?Curan, is a warrior augmented by magic, capable of slaying dozens of enemy soldiers with ease. Can he overcome the ghosts of those who die by his sword?______________________________A thrilling fantasy adventure filled with magic, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of Mistborn, Kingfountain, or Six of Crows.

Blood of Vengeance


Angel Haze - 2019
    He must play the role of “Killer,” the prince’s savage, bloodthirsty champion.Undefeated in battle, Killien wields a secret advantage: the magic enhancing his weapons and fueling his attacks. The cost of losing carries a price worse than death.A wager between his vindictive master and a conspiring rival pits Killien in a fight to the death against a mysterious warrior —one he has no hope of defeating.

Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 1


Roy Thomas - 2019
    Full-color covers, letters pages, pinups, extensive articles and reviews on Conan, his world and his creator -everything's included just as no one is spared the vengeance of Conan! After the breakout success of Conan's color comic, Marvel brought the legendary sword-and-sorcery saga of Robert E. Howard's hero to its black-and-white magazine line. In lushly illustrated novel-length adventures with all the drama, violence and allure the comic book medium can off er, writer Roy Thomas and Marvel's greatest artists craft a host of Conan classics like Barry Windsor-Smith's "Red Nails" and John Buscema's "Black Colossus" and "A Witch Shall Be Born" featuring the infamous Tree of Death are just the beginning! COLLECTING: SAVAGE TALES (1971) 1-5; SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) 1-12, SPECIAL (1975) 1

A Voice That Thunders


Cully Mack - 2019
    A Shadow creeping closer... Can an apprentice healer be the key to ignite a war?Mirah looks for the best in everybody. But her naiveté is shattered when her clan is slaughtered, and she’s dragged into captivity. Vulnerable and scared, she has no choice but to accept her kidnappers’ offer to join their sect of lethal female fighters. Desperate to find stability in her chaotic new life, Mirah throws herself into training as a water mage and warrior. But as she discovers her unprecedented elemental control, her instructor warns that revealing her power will put her in mortal danger. With the fate of humanity at risk, will Mirah’s growing abilities spell her salvation… or destruction? A Voice That Thunders is the first book in the action-packed Voice that Thunders epic fantasy series. If you like strong women, intricate world-building, and stories of enduring friendship, then you’ll adore Cully Mack’s riveting saga.

Battlepug: The Compugdium


Mike Norton - 2019
    Join the last Kinmundian and his faithful steed, THE BATTLEPUG, as the travel the seeking revenge against every giant ridiculous animal they can find. Featuring extras like sketches and art by some of the most creative artists in the business today!Collects the entire 5 volume original series of BATTLEPUG!

Life of Numbers


Seth Richter - 2019
    Each person who has ever lived has five Numbers on their arm, defining the five primary attributes of that person. Throughout someone's life, these will increase with time and effort, and all of society revolves around these Numbers. What happens when this natural system of Numbers, the basis of all of society for all of history...changes?

The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire


Glen Cook - 2019
     For over forty years, Glen Cook has been among the most well-known, influential, and widely respected authors in science fiction and fantasy. Through classic series such as The Black Company, Garrett P.I., the Dread Empire, Starfishers, Darkwar, and more, his gritty, down-to-earth style left an indelible impression on his readers around the world, forever shifting the genre landscape and carving out his place as a pioneering icon.  The Best of Glen Cook collects eighteen of his greatest stories—as chosen and introduced by the author himself—including a new, never-before-published Black Company novelette. With works set in all of his most famous series, these tales of science fiction and fantasy offer both the perfect way for longtime fans to trace Cook’s history and for new readers to become familiar with one of the finest genre authors of the twentieth century.

Conan the Barbarian: The Life and Death of Conan, Book One


Jason Aaron - 2019
    Robert E. Howard's creation returns to comics, in an epic tale as only MARVEL could bring you! Conan's travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unkown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. As his fighting prowess allows him to carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death! This all-new ages-spanning saga forever changes Conan's destiny!COLLECTING: CONAN THE BARBARIAN 1-6

Gwenevere's Knights: The Complete Knights of Caerleon Trilogy


Claire Luana - 2019
    Lancelot. Galahad. Percival. What if Gwenevere never had to choose? Experience the Legend like you've never seen it before . . . I am Fionnabhair Allan, a warrior princess of Ulster, and I have only one hope of saving my father and sister from the rival clann holding them hostage. Steal a faerie sword from a king. But not just any king—Arthur Pendragon. My plan was simple. Fight my way into Arthur’s inner circle and then use any means necessary to gain his trust. But I didn’t foresee how quickly my resolve would falter around this powerful yet gentle king and his three captivating knights—sensuous Galahad, brilliant Percival, and devastating Lancelot. It should be a simple task: finish the job. But Arthur’s kingdom in Caerleon is dying under Morgan la Fay’s dark curse, and Merlin’s magic has foreseen that, somehow, I’m the key to breaking it. And my traitorous heart refuses to cooperate when Arthur and his knights are near. I fear soon I’ll be faced with an impossible choice—betray the king and three knights I’m falling for or choose my heart and doom my family to death. Gwenevere’s Knights is a Celtic Arthurian Legend fantasy adventure reverse harem tale of betrayal and fated love. This boxed set contains the complete bestselling Knights of Caerleon series: The Fifth Knight (Book One) The Third Curse (Book Two) The First Gwenevere (Book Three) This boxed set is suitable for readers aged 18+

Tales from the Magician's Skull #3


Howard Andrew Jones - 2019
    The beast of the change gibbered in the back of his mind, begging to be unleashed. His fingers splayed, his nails began to lengthen….Tyrant’s Bane By John C. HockingSomeone in the garb of a royal guardsman came out of the stairwell. His blue armor was covered with blood and there was a fist-sized hole in his cuirass through which Benhus could see the wall behind him. There was a sword in each hand and, as he advanced, the dead man lifted both weapons.Five Deaths By James EngeThe heavy stone door moved easily upon its hinges; Morlock pulled it open and stepped through cautiously. Lernaion was about to follow when there was a sudden bodiless screaming and the door slammed shut.The Forger’s Art By Violette MalanHis head wore a surprised look when it landed a few feet away. The body slumped to the ground, pumping out blood onto the grass.“Why do people always talk too much?” Parno wiped his sword clean on the dead stranger’s tunic.Second Death of Hanuvar By Howard Andrew JonesHanuvar twisted, parried a blow that would have caved in his skull, and lost his balance. He saw the pit yawning, and the flame more than twenty feet below.The Wizard of Remembrance By Sarah NewtonThe memnovore towered over him, its mouth distending into a translucent sleeve of slime. Acid burned Suven’s flesh, and he screamed. In the demon’s larval embrace, he prayed for oblivion.The issue also contains a series of short stories by Joseph A. McCullough.

The Red Man and Others


Angeline B. Adams - 2019
    Ymke lives in exile in the war-torn north, where she learns the meaning of true strength and the price of hiding. As Sebastien is elevated to sainthood, the two young women find each other, and a new purpose for their talents. 'Issues of queerness, coping with disability, and found family arise organically within the stories, signalling not a deconstruction of sword & sorcery, but a broader inclusivity.' - Ngo Vinh-Hoi, co-host of the Appendix N Book Club'Intimate, literate and touching scenes erupt into visceral violence; I was reminded of Poe’s Hop-Frog.' - Ricardo Pinto, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon'There is a sense of roguish humor mixed with the odd, effective drop of tragedy that drives these stories. . . and always from the classic sword & sorcery, bottom-up perspective of the outsider protagonists.' - Sword & Sorcery Magazine'I’m a sucker for modern heroic fantasy, so I was glad to take a look. And what I found was a well-packaged collection.' - Black Gate'A reaction to the musclebound masculinity, the unbridled machismo that is found and often-times put at the forefront of Sword & Sorcery.' - Rogues in the House podcast

Conan the Barbarian #1


Jason Aaron - 2019
    Howard’s creation returns to comics, in an epic tale as only MARVEL could bring you! Conan’s travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unkown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. As his fighting prowess allows him to carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death! The all-new ages-spanning saga begins here, by writer Jason Aaron (THE MIGHTY THOR, STAR WARS) and artist Mahmud Asrar (UNCANNY X-MEN, ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS), as Conan’s destiny is forever changed!

The Chronicles of Caylen-Tor


Byron A. Roberts - 2019
    A mighty legion intent upon the conquest of the antediluvian world... A tyrannical Serpent King ruling from his sinister black pyramid... These are the chronicles of Caylen-Tor, the indomitable barbarian warrior whose cold steel carves a searing, bloody swath through the time-lost kingdoms of legend. A mercenary, a reaver, a king by his own hand... the saga of Caylen-Tor is one of pitiless carnage, dark sorcery, and epic battle! Bleed for the gods of war!

Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp


Mark Wheatley - 2019
    P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard and compliments them with lavish illustrations by Mark Wheatley.

Gods of Merlin


Priya Ardis - 2019
    Eowlyn Patience is a girl with NO future until she's asked to kill her physics teacher.Everything changes when Someone must claim Excalibur.She is so not the right person... Trouble follows seventeen-year-old Eowlyn Patience around. Desperate for her current foster family to like her, her life all falls apart when the actual Sword in the Stone drops like a dead bird into the heart of London. And suddenly she has to attend some weirdo school in England with the irritating smart kid from science class.After a teenage Merlin wakes from a fifteen-hundred-year nap, he takes the name Matt Emrys. Now he must track down the next Arthur before the apocalypse begins. But the Avalon Academy trials are being sabotaged by vicious gargoyles, and his growing feelings for exactly the wrong girl are getting in the way.As Eowlyn desperately tries to master the skill of freeing Excalibur, she's plagued by her attraction to immense power and to the two hot boys who are so not her type. And Merlin fears the troubled path the girl is on will end with his heart broken and him sacrificed to a dark god. Can the destiny assemble the Round Table before the world ends in fire and blood?

Crossbones & Crosses: An Anthology of Heroic Swashbuckling Adventure


Jason M. WaltzDavid R. Downing - 2019
    Gritty, dangerous, and bloody tales of the past, realistic without being nihilistic. The anthology kicks off with a rousing foreword by swashbuckling and sword-and-sorcery guru Howard Andrew Jones. This is followed by 3 sections of adventure: 7 tales each of pirates and crusaders, and 3 tales combining the two. Sections contain stories by current bestselling authors, up-and-coming authors, and classic tales from 1910. Epic verse and song round out each section of historical action.There's never been anything like this. It's a massive tome of piratical and crusading adventure you'll be delighted to read!

How to Kill a Wizard


Arthur King - 2019
    Fact: Sometimes it is hard. “It’s so horrible. He controls her mind. She follows him around like a slave, he dresses her how he wants, uses her for sex, and has her cooking for him. She’s a slave, she doesn’t know me or anyone, and she’s happy about it, because of his magic,” the boy said. Some people needed killing, Gunnolf had always believed that, still he was a mace-man , a thug for hire. He didn't kill wizards, he certainly didn't kill this one, Yolland the grand, head of their little school. At least he had a chance unlike this angry boy and he was pretty sick of his life, it might be his last chance to get the gods to notice him. "50 gold and if i die trying you pay the Carthian temple for me. I want two bulls sacrificed in my name."

Gunthar- Warrior of the Lost World.


Steve Dilks - 2019
    PRIESTESS OF THE FIRE-GODS. THE CITY OF THE BLACK FLAME. THE DEVIL FROM BEYOND. LORD OF THE BLACK THRONE.

Death Dealers & Diabolists


D.M. RitzlinCarl Walmsley - 2019
    You will encounter a former gladiatrix in the employ of demon summoners, an overly ambitious barbarian chieftain, a doddering pyromancer, and incarnations of holy warriors of India. Death Dealers & Diabolists contains eight exciting tales of swords and sorcery by an assortment of talented authors, including Buzz Dixon (writer for the Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Thundarr the Barbarian cartoons) and Keith Taylor (author of the Bard series). Stories included: “Q’a the Librarian” by Buzz Dixon “The Man With the Evil Eye” by Keith Taylor “The Vault of Geigar Verakas” by Kenneth R. Gower “Lord of the Wood” by Geoff Blackwell “Ranorax, Son of the Tiger” by Mark Taverna “Intrigue in the Unassailable City” by Carl Walmsley “Three Coins of Doom” by Bryan Dyke “The Age of Crows—The Return of the Swarm” by Jed J. Del Rosario

The Seer: A Prequel to The Stone of Knowing


Allan N. Packer - 2019
    Powerful men want to control her, to use her to dominate others.Kalvor is a warrior of unusual tenacity, a hunter who never gives up. Driven by his past, he has become a dangerous enemy.When Kalvor is sent to find and capture the seer, each of them will be tested in ways they could never have imagined.In time the outcome will determine the fate of kingdoms. The Seer is a short standalone story of novelette length (5 chapters). It is a prequel to The Stone of Knowing, book one of The Stone Cycle. The Stone Cycle reading order: The Stone of Knowing (Book One) The Cost of Knowing (Book Two) The Stone of Authority (Book Three) - coming in Feb 2020 Additional reading for The Stone Cycle: The Seer (a novelette prequel to The Stone of Knowing). The Seer is a short standalone story that can also be read independently of other books in the series. The Rending (a novelette length prequel to The Cost of Knowing). The Rending is a short standalone story that can also be read independently of other books in the series. Subscribe to my mailing list at my website for a free copy.

Eda Blessed: A Ki Khanga Adventure


Milton J. Davis - 2019
    . . and the attentions of a god. Eda Blessed shares the tales of the man and the mercenary as he roams the roads of Ki Khanga bouncing from one adventure to another surviving with his skills, wits, and Eda's blessings.