(This is the third story in the series. Previous: “Dusteater“. Next: “Paladin“.) Jude floated above his skull. He always floated above his skull, unable to drift more than an arm’s length from the brown, spotted bone. Not that he had arms. Or bones. Coyotes made off with most of the big ones, and vultures took […]
(This is the second story in the series. Previous: “Wizard“. Next: “Ghost“.) “A wizard comes.” The rasping voice faded into the throbbing shadows as Damaris glided forward into the endless night. The soft vapors of creation churned around her ethereal limbs. She watched a pair of enormous blood-red tendrils undulate through the clouded void, far […]
This series of short stories and fix-up novels by Jack Vance spanning the 1950s to 1980s is one of my favorite works of fantasy. It’s about morally gray characters just trying to survive, it’s about a dying world where people still need to get paid, it’s about extra-dimensional demons and fallen angels and tentacle monsters […]
Join us tonight on Twitch at 9pm EST to vote on our ongoing crowd-guided mythic fantasy adventure-writing project. Tonight, our hero and his companions have taken shelter in the haunted tower of a long-dead sorcerer-king, where they discover a shocking truth! Will they investigate further? Will they escape and seek help? More importantly, what unique location inside […]
This novel by Glen Cook was written in 1984, and from what I hear it was an influential fantasy book in that era, particularly as it uniquely combined a cast of low-fantasy anti-hero mercenaries with a high-fantasy world of magic and apocalypses. I don’t recall any of that because I was 5 at the time, […]