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Cyril Bagger is an American private in World War 1 and has survived so far by being as far away from the action as possible. His work-shy…
When he was just fourteen, Bataar killed a gryphon, though the price he and his friends paid was high and none of them survived unscathed. Bataar should…
Jamie Pike and Esther Pike are cousins, and they both live in the city of Fairharbour, which appears to be situated in a fantasy world in which…
Still grieving for Bêlit, his pirate queen lover, Conan drinks to numbness. On one such occasion, he meets Gudrun, Hunwolf, and their young son Bjørn. The small…
Sometimes it is difficult to know where the boundaries between genres lie. While the intelligent reader is looking for well-crafted prose, good characters and an interesting plot,…
Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a drowning man from shipwreck. A love triangle ensues between Luce, the rescued…
In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W. Campbell’s seminal horror novella ‘Who Goes There?’, published in 1938, and harder to…
As a teenager, Detective William Renney survived a snakebite, which gave him a healthy respect for the desert and its non-human inhabitants. Hot desert sun, and a…
In the coastal town of St Sinwin’s, in the great house his money purchased, Violet is at her father’s bedside when Hedrek Zennor breathes his last. And…
As my first longer piece of Eric LaRocca fiction, having only read 4 short stories of his previously, I didn’t entirely know what to expect. Suffice to…