Nach einem heimtückischen Angriff durch Kreaturen eines mächtigen Hexenmeisters liegt die einst blühende Stadt Suthad in Schutt und Asche. Die Überlebenden unter ihnen die Rote Sonja und an ihrer Seite ihr Kampfgefährte Lord Olin, ziehen aus, um den Gegner zu stellen, doch dieser meidet den offenen Kampf und lichtet ihre Reihen durch Magie, Wahnsinn und Tod, bis es Sonja gelingt, das Geheimnis des Rings von Ikribu zu lüften.
3. und abschließender Band der Bran Mak Morn Reihe
Die Hölle lacht. Roman 3
Aeysla, die Zauberkönigin von Atlantis, kehrt zurück, um Rom entgegenzutreten. Sie wählt Bran Mak Morn, den letzten Kämpfer der Götter des versunkenen Kontinents. Doch gegen das Schicksal ist selbst Atlantis machtlos. David C. Smith und Richard L. Tierney beleben die Figur des Pikten-Königs neu.
Ein tückisches Fieber befällt die Rote Sonja, und mit letzter Kraft erreicht sie ein Versteck in den Bergen. Dort trifft sie auf Prinz Omeron und sein Gefolge, die der grausame Magier Du-jum aus ihrem Lande vertrieb. Als Dank für erwiesene Hilfe und Genesung schließt sich Sonja den Truppen Omerons an, um die gepeinigten Bürger seines Reiches zu befreien. Die schauerlichen Kräfte Schwarzer Magie messen sich mit dem Geschick und der Klugheit der schönen Schwertkämpferin, und es kommt zu einem erbarmungslosen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Doch noch ist Hoffnung, dass der Herrscher der Hölle sich in den Schlingen der eigenen Intrige verfängt...
“This Will Be a Quick War”Twenty years ago, Hanlin and Thorem fought side by side as mercenaries in the Border Wars, hired by rich landowners and the settled business interests to push the western frontier farther into lands held by the westlings—the kirangee, the People, who have lived there for untold generations.Now the business interests intend to encroach still farther on the territory held by the People. Hired by the wealthy Lady Sil of Tidon to assist in this enterprise, Thorem cannot convince Hanlin to join him on another campaign. Following the earlier battles, Hanlin had gone to live with the kirangee, learned some of their ways, married a kirangia woman—and has no interest in making war against them again.But Hanlin’s and Thorem’s destinies will nevertheless become entangled once more as both are drawn back to the frontier that saw their earlier glories—and failures.David C. Smith, recognized for a career spent writing sword-and-sorcery and weird fiction, here offers an insightful, often brutal modern novel that vividly brings to life the ferocious wills and dark hearts of the skilled mercenaries and the redoubtable kirangee. The People will raise the sorcery of their ancestors to defend their land at all costs, but Lady Sil will not be deterred, for as Thorem tells his old friend, “As mothers breed sons, the sons breed war.”
"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of dying in Coven House."It has stood outside a rural village in northwest Illinois for a century, a cursed farmhouse that seems as old as Time and as evil as icy Hell itself.Brought to life by a coven of flappers and fanatics, it has remained on earth as a haven for anyone who walks or crawls into it-fools, adventurers, lost souls all.Wealthy Curt Peterson disregards the stories surrounding Coven House as he seeks to communicate with his dead wife and daughter. He blames himself for their deaths and hopes that Coven House will allow him to be with them once more.With him are his new wife, Jill, a model, and her photographer, Eric Cullen, who is himself determined to document the ghosts and memories that still inhabit the old mansion.They will succeed.Coven House allows all who enter it to discover its secrets.Haunted horror in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson."A compact, chillingly cerebral narrative. One of the scariest haunted houses ever."-Ken W. Faig, Jr.