Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini (Author), Gary Hoppenstand (Introduction)
Penguin Classics

Scaramouche
by Rafael Sabatini (Author), Gary Hoppenstand (Introduction)
Signet Classics

The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau
by Anthony Hope (Author), Gary Hoppenstand (Author)
Penguin Classics

Turn the Other Chick
Esther Friesner (Editor)
Baen Books

Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Bad Guy William Horner (Editor)
Fantasist Enterprises

Tros of Samothrace
Talbot Mundy
RAGE m a c h i n e Books

The entire TROS OF SAMOTHRACE in one volume! Written in 1926, Talbot Mundy created a character like no other. Highly influential on Robert E. Howard, fantasy fans have claimed this story as well. Follow Tros on his mission to stop Julius Caesar, using any and all methods available to him, even magic.

Bloodsong Saga #1 -- Warrior Witch
C. Dean Andersson
Hawk Publishing Group

Set in Pagan Scandinavia and originally created ten years BX (Before Xena), the Bloodsong Saga features a warrior woman fighting to save her daughter and friends from the Death Goddess Hel. When the saga begins, years have passed since Bloodsong's death after leading a slave revolt from the tyrant Nidhug's realm. Those who followed her shouted the battle cry, 'Bloodsong and Freedom!' To her friends who survived, she now returns from Death Herself to again do battle with Nidhug, but this time the stakes are her daughter's life. The Death Goddess holds Bloodsong's daughter, Guthrun, hostage. If Bloodsong can break Nidhug's power and return to Hel the sorcerous War Skull that Nidhug stole, Guthrun will be freed. But many other Hel Warriors have ridden against Nidhug over the centuries, and all have failed. If Bloodsong also fails, Guthrun and all else Bloodsong holds dear will be lost forever to Hel's icy embrace. An old saying goes, 'Hel Laughs Last.' But to that Bloodsong defiantly vows, 'Not this time!'

Bloodsong Saga #2 -- Warrior Rebel
C. Dean Andersson
Hawk Publishing Group

Years after the events in Warrior Witch, the Hel-Witch Thokk and Hel's ghoulish Death Riders kidnap Guthrun, Bloodsong's teenaged daughter, to awaken the dark Hel-magic sleeping within her. Another of Hel's allies is Lokith, once known as Thorbjorn, Bloodsong's son, killed when but a child. Thokk has matured Lokith's corpse, and Hel has given him dark power beyond a mortal's reach. Bloodsong's only hope to save Guthrun is to rely on her daughter's own defiant warrior spirit while Bloodsong rides in search of help from battle-maddened, shape-shifting Berserkers devoted to the God Odin, even though it means risking becoming one herself.

Bloodsong Saga # -- Warrior Beast
C. Dean Andersson
Hawk Publishing Group

The final battle is about to commence!

Following the events in Warrior Rebel, the undead Lokith returns seeking revenge against his mother and sister, Bloodsong and Guthrun. He also returns to the Lands of Life to prepares the way for the Goddess of Death herself to march forth upon the Earth. Bloodsong, Guthrun, the Freya-Witch Huld, and shape-shifting Berserker allies stand as always against the forces of Hel. But to win this final battle Bloodsong must accept the dark beast powers within herself while Guthrun risks using her awakened Hel-powers without losing herself to the Enemy's allure. And for Life to survive on the Earth, they must all work together to find the lair of an ancient army of Corpse-Beasts who alone stand a chance of sending Hel back to Helheim and saving Earth itself from an icy death.

The War Skull of Hel in the Michael Moorcock anthology Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion edited by Edward E. Kramer

Bloodsong joins with Urlik Skarsol, one of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champions, and finds that even Death Herself can fear the Champion's Black Sword.

Bloodsong short story -- 'Slim and Swede and the Damned Dead Horse' in the World Fantasy Convention 2006 Robert E. Howard tribute anthology Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard edited by Scott Cupp and Joe R. Lansdale

As Bloodsong's battle with the Death Goddess Hel ranges through Time, two cowboys in 1800s Texas are thrust into her fight against Hel. Until then, they thought nothing could be more deadly than Comanches. But from Bloodsong and Hel even Comanches flee!

Darksteel Destinies: Volume 1 of the Wildersteel Chronicles
by Daniel C. Nielsen

Daedus Scappilius is an ex-priest turned soldier. For a decade he’d led the dwindling Fourth Cohort as Praefect against the hordes of the Auger Potentates in the Frostmarches. Now, by treachery, Daedus and his men find themselves traitors to the Markan Empire and in the jungles of Mictlan. Fighting for the tattooed godslayer Adzutucoatl and his allies the Banebaals, they trek into the heart of darkness where more powerful enemies await, willing to die at any cost to prevent Adzutucoatl from claiming the master blades of wildersteel as his own.

Serpent's Quest - Lycan Blood Vol. I
by Janrae Frank
published by Renaissance E Books/PageTurner

Brothers of the Light! The Red Wolf was the greatest of the Nine Great Clans of the lycan race, which included: Silverpaw, Macgregor, Culloden, Blaidd Brith, Ci Drawg, Stormhunter, Bladeheart, and Moondog. The clans had long suffered under the yoke of the blood-drinking sa'necari necromancers. Set amid the events of her ongoing Dark Brothers of the Light trilogy, Lycon Blood is the newest masterpiece of dark fantasy from the pen of the woman whose heroines and heroes make Conan and his creator look like wimps.

Fireborn Law - Lycan Blood Vol. II
by Janrae Frank
published by Renaissance E Books/PageTurner

Kynyr Maguire has been assigned the job of investigating Malthus Estrobian, his king's new son-in-law. But Kynyr has no idea how dangerous the assignment will prove for himself and beloved Kady Wiggins, daughter of a tavern owner. For Malthus Estrobian is secretly the faceless genocidal mastermind known to the lycans as the Butchering Serpent, and he has infiltrated the lycan clan Red Wolf to destroy the ruling family and subjugate the clan on behalf of his own queen. Meanwhile, the priestess Pandeena Moonbow, has brought allies to Kynyr's cause in the form of a legendary lawgiver, Padruig Caimbeul, who was known in his youth as Fireborn Law. Complicating it all is the Trickster Goddess Dynanna, whose ability to get people into and out of trouble is both legion and legend--and she has plans for Kynyr

If Truth Dies - Lycan Blood Vol. III
by Janrae Frank
published by Renaissance E Books/PageTurner

Kynyr Maguire's secret has become known to Malthus Estrobian who plans to kill him for it. Kynyr is the rightful prince and heir to the throne of Red Wolf. Engaged to be married to his beloved Kady Wiggins, forces are moving to prevent the wedding, even if it means killing both of them. The trickster goddess, Dynanna, has given Kynyr the enchanted sword called Ladyfaith, but whether that is a blessing or a curse is yet to be discovered. Can the ever resourceful Kynyr Maguire and his friends defeat the plots of Malthus Estrobian to save their people?

Kynyr's War - Lycan Blood Vol. IV
by Janrae Frank
published by Renaissance E Books/PageTurner

Win! Amos Raggat sends a letter to Kynyr Maguire, the Prince of Red Wolf, begging for assistance. When Amos' messenger is murdered, the letter goes astray as a Willodarian monk, Brother Malcolm, attempts to deliver it without any idea which Kynyr Maguire it goes to. The letter holds the key to Malthus Estrobian's efforts to take over the town of Hell's Widow and decimate the lycan community there. It will draw Kynyr and his beloved Kady into a war which they may not can win.

The Exile's Return - Lycan Blood Vol. V
by Janrae Frank
published by Renaissance E Books/PageTurner

Caimbeul sends Kynyr Maguire hunting for private justice and a way to prove that his mortal enemy, Malthus Estrobian, was responsible for it. His wife, Kady, unknowingly takes a viper into her nest when she allows her sister, Larena to live with them--Larena is sleeping with the enemy. Meanwhile, Kynyr's young friend, Cooley Blackwood, has strapped on his blades and gone looking for the man behind his father's murder, a quest that will lead him into the snares set by Malthus Estrobian. Into this dangerous mix, rides a mysterious Creeyan military intelligence officer called Stoneriver. Is he a friend? Or Kynyr's worst nightmare?

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