The three volume set of Fantasy/Horror Author Dylan Doose's SWORD AND SORCERY SERIES is available now! You can find out about all three books below!
Title: FIRE AND SWORD
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 332
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 332
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Condemned to hang for their
crimes, they'll march instead to perish as heroes, or live as free men.
A broken nation in need of a
savior - ravaged by plague, decimated by dark magic, infiltrated by a foreign
evil seeking to dominate from within. Three will rise to save the beleaguered
land. But will they be enough?
A fantasy adventure for fans of
Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Scott Lynch!
Three men condemned to die: Aldous
Weaver, a heretic monk turned sorcerer, imprisoned for accidentally incinerating
the leader of his order. Kendrick the Cold, an infamous crusader turned
fugitive, is a villain who knows he can never be a hero. Theron Ward, an
aristocrat with a penchant for slaughtering monsters, and a legend in his own
mind.
When the kingdom
of Brynth is threatened by a far greater evil, the unlikely trio
must make a choice — seek to escape this land that cries for their execution,
or find the true heroes within themselves. And then, armed with fire and sword,
march together against the forces of darkness. But can three such disparate
warriors ever prevail?
**Fire and Sword received an
Honorable Mention from Library Journal 2016 and a Shelf Unbound Magazine
Notable 100 for 2015**
Don't miss the dark fantasy that
reviewers are calling 'gritty, fast-paced and compelling'—get your copy of Fire
and Sword today!
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About the Book:
Title:
CATACOMBS OF TIME
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 59
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 59
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
A fantasy adventure for fans of
Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Scott Lynch!
In a world where the Rata Plaga
and ghouls feast on the dead, doctor Gaige De’Brouillard believes science, not
magic, conquers all.
Even death is just an equation to
be solved.
When De’Brouillard is called upon
by the Lord Regent to cure a curse and save one of the damned, he must battle
for his career, his faith in science, and even his life. In the darkest slums
and deepest catacombs, the doctor finds himself staring death in the eye with
no scientific solution at hand. Has the doctor finally come across a question
that science cannot answer, and will he pay with his life?
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that reviewers are calling 'visceral,' 'fantastic,' and 'intriguing'—get your
copy of Catacombs of Time today!
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About the Book:
Title:
THE PYRES
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 268
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Author: Dylan Doose
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 268
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Once again, three unlikely
heroes must band together in a fiery conflict between gods and demons.
A country ravaged by civil war,
now threatened with evil unleashed by rivers of blood. Three must rise again to
save the beleaguered land and thwart a dark prophecy.
A fantasy adventure for fans of
Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Scott Lynch!
Theron Ward, Aldous Weaver and
Kendrick the Cold must band together and fight again. This time, they are
caught in the timeless clash of gods and demons, and led by the dark prophecy
of dreams.
A ruthless warlord, the Dog Eater,
rises out of the rivers of blood from civil war. As friend and foe reach out
from futures past, the three will see a city of white stone turn black with ash
… and the only way forward is through the fire. One thing is certain, none of
them will ever be the same. And one will be transformed in ways he never
dreamed. Dare the three depend on the blood ties of the past to carry them
through this terrible night?
Don't miss the next thrilling
installment in the dark fantasy that reviewers are calling 'gritty, fast-paced
and compelling'—get your copy of The Pyres today!
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Book Excerpt from FIRE AND SWORD:
The thing left a trail of thick black blood and green pus.
More a stream than a trail, if Theron Ward, hunter of monsters, wanted to be
precise. It was wounded and wounded horribly, but not dead.
Grimmshire was not the only town ruined by the plague. As
far as Theron knew, the whole country had a piece of it. The rats came with
those terrible black boils. Rats larger than dogs. In the beginning, they came
in swarms. Now they appeared alone or in small roving packs, as if a once
powerful tether that bound the group had been weakened.
Four years ago, they had come and spewed their filth into
the town. Two days was all it had taken until half the town was crawling and
squealing with the rats, puking up pus and bursting black boils. The other half
of the town became the swarm’s feast.
Those who didn’t turn simply couldn’t. The priests said that
only the sinners turned, that the pious were protected from the plague. Theron
doubted that, for he was not a pious man and he knew a thing or two about
sin—sins of the flesh mostly—and he had been exposed to enough plague to wipe
out a city.
Yet he had not turned.
Theron suspected something more sinister than nature, or the
work of gods and devils to be the villainy incarnate that had unleashed such
wickedness upon the land. He suspected something more human, or slightly more
than human. Unpopular opinion, but his opinion nonetheless.
It was midday, but
it was dark in the ruined town. The clouds shrouded the sun, gray and
threatening, but not a drop of rain. The once green pastures were yellow as far
as the eye could see. Once this had been a bustling, happy little town. Now
there were just the colors of pus and piss and ash all around, beneath those
suffocating gray clouds.
There came a rustling sound from the chapel, the one
building in the town not entirely burned to the ground. It had been painted
white when it was built, and painted black with soot and ash when death had
come to its town. The stained glass windows were shattered, shards of the
vibrant panes scattered round in the dirt and the yellow grass.
Theron burst through the door. His skin crawled at the sight
of the wounded thing within the chapel; they always made his skin crawl, though
he had killed over a hundred. He could kill over a thousand and still his skin
would crawl.
Theron was a beast hunter, had been for nearly a decade, but
the rats had always disturbed him the most, more than any creature or demon.
What made the things so terrible was not the giant, rotting buckteeth that
burst from the mouth. It was not the boils or the tufts of matted fur. Not the
long tail or the brutish muscles, not the naked, sagging female breasts or the
male parts dangling, filthy and crusted.
It was the eyes, for the eyes remained entirely human. And
so, Theron was certain that a human being was still left in there, with no
control over what it had become and begging for its torment to end.
This one had been a woman once, perhaps a mother, a lover, a
sister, a daughter. For a dreadful moment he pictured his own sister taking the
form of the wretched thing before him.
About the Author:
Writer. Sculptor. Bad fitness
advice. In between writing books, award winning fantasy author Dylan Doose
fills his not-so-busy schedule with martial arts, mountain biking, paddle
surfing, weight lifting, and of course HBO, PS4 and increasing the size of his
beloved personal library. Dylan’s Fire
and Sword received an honorable mention from Library Journal in 2016 and was a Shelf Unbound Notable 100 for
2015.
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