The short story anthology Legends edited by Margaret Weis, the first collection of the Tales from the Eternal Archives, contains almost twenty stories of near above average quality loosing connected to one another through a mystical library, titular Eternal Archives. Although the majority of the ni...
In this fourth volume of the adventures of Basil & Moebius, two adventurers, they find themselves involved along with their Mossad partner in the Collector's world. All sorts of supernatural creatures appear which our heroes have to confront, usually with violence, as they try to find their way home...
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues by J.M. MartinS.E. Lindberg rating: 5 of 5 starsBlackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues is Highly Recommended Dark Fantasy:: This collection is largely Dark Fantasy. As the subtitle says, this not just about Assassins--there a...
Project successfully funded on Kickstarter. Initial pledge goal more than doubled! I'm looking forward to reading this anthology.
So, for his next series, R.A. Salvatore farms out the actual writing of the series to six other authors. Part of me wants to criticize him for being lazy and not writing his own stuff, but mostly, it just comes out as admiration-- I'd totally do the same if I were in his position. So, this is a bo...
As Lackey explained in her introduction, her very first sale was to one of the Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover anthologies. MZB is best known for her Avalon novels, but what I loved was her Darkover series, and in fact the very first story I read by Lackey was that short story in MZB's universe, ""...
3.5 Stars~
SummaryA murder victim is turned into a zombie, just long enough to cover up the circumstances of his own death . . .A silent ghost with a friendly grin greets those about to meet their doom . . .The only clue to who's killing a party of adventurers is the letter "H," written in the blood of one of ...
As with any other short story anthology, there were some stories in this that I enjoyed more than others, both in style and content. The title story was...something of a forehead slapper once I figured out where things were going (and it did take me a bit, since I'm not that familiar with Scooby Doo...
This book deals with Wizards, Witch Hunters and Chaos Cultists (from the Father o Lies). I like the way Byers dealt with the plot and characters. He portrayed the evil doers humanly with good characterestics and vice-versa. Everything is grey. There is white and black but grey is the colour that eng...