A lean, action-packed adventure boasting a wonderfully weird setting.
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A lean, action-packed adventure boasting a wonderfully weird setting.
If Cormac McCarthy read like a 'normal' book, I wouldn't be interested.
Plot is about 8th on the list.
Voice, style, insight, knowingness, art of language-- all mean more to me.
Try The Road though if you want a more mainstream McCarthy.
After reading "Rider in the Widow Lands," Coy Hall's new Sword & Sorcery story, my admiration only grows. This is a terrific, moody tale about a flinty-eyed "hero" whose past, only glimpsed, could surely fill volumes.
I enjoyed the hell out of this story!
@coyhall.bsky.social
Art by • Jun Suemi
And let us not forget c) wife guy still exists, and he wants to buy stuff for wife with sword
It's a story about knights on a dying earth! Very excited for everyone to read it.
One of our editor's stories, "This Rough Beast," is in this one! Grombrindal versus vampire knights.
Return to Thais
2026
We love it indeed!
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee
Recommendation of the day: "The Coral Heart" by Jeffrey Ford, in the anthology (aptly titled) "Swords and Sorcery," edited by Hartwell and Weisman. A wandering warrior with a sword that turns men to coral visits a villa inhabited by frog-people and a beautiful scholar. He also has a tulpa. Loved it.
Author photograph of Nathan Long
⚔️ WELCOME NATHAN LONG!✍️
@nathanrlong.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Castle sketch
2016
When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?
Gharahlek
2020
One of our editors has some fiction AND non-fiction in this one! If you liked "The Feast of Saint Ottmer," Contra Amatores Mundi, or his Warhammer stories, you'll probably like this story too. Back the magazine and get cool stuff!
Hell yeah
Rogers Fund, 1911
Judith with the Head of Holofernes https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436038
A muted tones illustration by @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social, depicting a knight on foot standing ready to battle a twelve story tall bipedal monstrosity.
A black and white illustration by @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social, depicting two medieval Chinese explorers on the ledge of a mountaintop, one looking into a cave, the other looking out over a gorgeous mesa.
A muted tones illustration by @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social, depicting a pair of comic book style panels - one is an upside down triangle showing a stone age sub-saharan African warrior looking up, the other is an arched panel the triangle is pointing down into; it shows a walled village.
A black and white illustration by @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social, depicting a silhouetted female figure dancing deep in a cave as lightning is visible in the sky seen through the opening, a dozen demonic figures watching her.
⚔️WELCOME BACK DANIEL VEGA!⚔️
@thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art, gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives, and sign up to be alerted on launch day 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Image is ‘Knight at the Crossroads’ (1878), a painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. It features an armored man on a white horse, looking across an open field. Text reads Rider in the Widow Lands: A Sword and Sorcery Short Story by Coy Hall.
Experimenting by releasing a short story on Kindle & KU. Rider in the Widow Lands is a 25 page sword & sorcery tale. Available now! Mybook.to/widowlands
Very happy to hear it. Hope the magazine and novella continue to entertain. And a big fan of TPM's work; keep fighting the good fight!
I'm so glad you like the magazine, and the story! This made my (and Caitlyn, wife and fellow editor's) day.
A knight fighting a wildman? Wow, what magazine might that story be appearing in...
Lovely art! And honored to have one of our editors' stories in here!
It's gotta be Macho Man as Severian, and Miss Elizabeth as Thecla.
The good stuff \m/
The limited-edition hardcover of @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT has officially gone to print (as of earlier this week). We'll keep everyone updated as much as possible, but it's not going to be long now.