Stop right there! If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won't be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with perhaps a pinch of silliness in the witchcraft, then these fourteen delicious sweetmeats of sword and sorcery will prove right up your alley. And it will be a dank, twisting, fetid alley, too.
Table of Contents
Introduction by S.C. Butler
© 2018 by S.C. Butler
“In the Asps’ Nest” by Lawrence Harding
© 2018 by Lawrence Harding
“The Sword and the Djinn” by Howard Andrew Jones
© 2018 by Howard Andrew Jones
“Honors Among Thieves” by Esther Friesner
© 2018 by Esther Friesner
“Rainbow Dark” by Jenna Rhodes
© 2018 by Rhondi Vilott Salsitz
“The Three Assassins of Lord Slaughter” by Gini Koch (writing as Anita Ensal)
© 2018 by Jeanne Cook
“Footprints of the Hound” by Violette Malan
© 2018 by Violette Malan
“The Witch That Wasn’t” by Leah Webber
© 2018 by Leah Webber
“Oathbreaker” by David Farland
© 2018 by John David Wolverton
“Blood and Onyx” by R.K. Nickel
© 2018 by Russ Nickel
“The Charter” by Ashley McConnell
© 2018 by Ashley McConnell
“Guild of the Ancients” by D.B. Jackson
© 2018 by D.B. Jackson
“The Cage at the End of the World” by James Enge
© 2018 by James Enge
“Assassinsssss” by Jason Palmatier
© 2018 by Jason Palmatier
“Those Who Look Back” by Amelia Sirina
© 2018 by Maria Bashkueva
About the Authors
About the Editors
Acknowledgments
