THEN, STARS, by Michael Meyerhofer, Art by Simon Walpole   I know nobody cares about a squire’s dying words, but Eli Ben-Sodr insists it matters, and he’ll write down whatever I say just as I say it, so I guess I’ll humor him. Gods know he’s been kind to me, even though he could have […]

A FISTFUL OF SPELLS, A Spellslinger Story, by Zach Chapman, artwork by Ben Terdik   I threw the two Striga bodies on Sheriff Hickman’s desk, knocking over a dozen half-empty potion bottles. Glass crunched and Hickman flinched. “I—I don’t need the bodies!” He scrambled from his desk, barely avoiding a purple liquid that streamed to […]

THE SONG OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, by Darrell Schweitzer, artwork by Gary McCluskey   I will make the song of the Black Mountain. Hear how it begins: It was because dragons still lingered above the peak of the Black Mountain that the King of Kings, Emperor of All the World Worth Ruling called together into his […]

A STONE’S THROW, by Howard Andrew Jones, with artwork by Karolína Wellartová, and audio by Karen Bovenmyer     Hanuvar pointed the sword at the assassin’s throat. “Lie down.” Light from the swollen golden moon reached fitfully into the twisting alley, but there was no missing the curl of revulsion on the assassin’s lips as […]

DEMONS FROM THE DEEP, by Adrian Cole, with artwork by Miguel Santos.     It is a time of great change on the continent of Atlantis, following the fall of Karkora, the Pallid One and the triumph of the forces of the youthful Prince Elak. The people have now set Elak upon the Dragon Throne […]