Lords of the Bitter Dark

I'm pleased to announce that, Lords of the Bitter Dark, a story extracted from my upcoming novel, Through the Groaning Earth, is now the cover story for Dark Worlds Magazine #2 and is now available for purchase at Lulu.com.

Lords of the Bitter Darkness revisits Bathos, the city of corruption, which is the setting for my previously published novel, Escape from Devil's Head.

When his ship is blown across the great oceans by a sudden storm and founders upon the reefs of an unknown land, Azark plunges into the depths of the fiend-haunted silver mines of the Monks of Racaovanj, in order to free some enslaved fellow sailors who have been captured and put to work mining the silver ore. Soon, he finds himself caught between the deadly monks that zealously guard the mines and the living dead that lurk within the deep caverns.

Besides Lords of the Bitter Darkness, Dark Worlds #2 is 120 pages chock full of pulpy goodness and features other stories such as "Voices" (Mystery) by Nick Andreychuk, "Cauldron of Life, Blades of Death" (Historical Fantasy)by David A. Hardy, "River Baby Weeps" (Horror) by Joshua Reynolds, "Trick Candles" (Horror)by Stephen D. Rogers, "The Clatter of Dry Bones" (Mythos)by Jack Mackenzie, "One Man's Trash" (Space Opera)by C. J. Burch.