CITY OF DREADFUL LIGHT, by James Enge, artwork by Miguel Santos “I will tell you a secret. There is a wisdom lies beyond the moon, and it is because of this that the stars are glad and admirable.” “That appears to me to be nonsense.” —Cabell, Domnei   Morlock knew a drunk when he saw […]

DISCORDANT FACTIONS, by Howard Andrew Jones (Excerpted from Book 3 of The Chronicles of Hanuvar, Shadow of the Smoking Mountain, coming from Baen October 2024) When their walls were breached at last, the people of Volanus fought block by block, house by house, until most fell with sword in hand. Only a thousand or so […]

DEATH UPON THE TURQUOISE ROAD: A TALE OF THE AZAlTÁN, by Gregory Mele,  pending artwork by Justin Pfeil Tehanuwak, the Land of Obsidian and Bronze, is a sweeping vista of ancient city-states in misty highlands and steaming jungles of the deep south to the vast grasslands and burning deserts of unmapped north. At this vast […]

AND ALL THE DEVILS FOLLOW, by Jennifer Crow, art by Gary McClusky     A queen defeated, robes in tatters, crown crushed under the conqueror’s boot, stands with clasped hands before the altar and listens to the devils laugh. Plots beyond humanity’s reach have twined around her, until her world reels before an onslaught of […]

ENCOUNTER AT MONS, by Ann K. Schwader, art by Caterina Gerbasi   (Belgium, 1914)   They’ll tell you angels came, or Arthur rode from Avalon to turn the German tide at our beleaguered trenches.  Naught besides a miracle had saved us — one bestowed all unsuspected.  Yet a few who saw more clearly through that […]