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Swords of Darkness Kindle Edition
Dominic wants to prove himself...
Reynard wants to win the fair maiden's heart...
But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Swords of Darkness is a collection of nine short stories that question what it means to be human, what it means to be brave, and what it means to wield the power of a sword.
Stories include:
The Price of Ambition
Hallows Eve Street
A Test of His Metal
Reynard and the Dragon
The Soul Road
Dance of Swords
The Curse of Ennerath
The Sword of Hexworthy Manor
The Vourdelak
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2016
- File size648 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B0191YZW08
- Publisher : Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : January 1, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 648 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 164 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Joseph Rubas is the author of over 200 short stories, many nonfiction pieces, several novels, and a nonfiction book. His work has appeared in: The Horror Zine; Eschatology Journal; Nameless Digest; The Storyteller; Horror Bound Online; and many others. His short fiction is collected in Pocketful of Fear (2012) and After Midnight (2014). He currently resides with his family in Florida.
L.C. Mortimer likes zombies, shifters, and things that go bump in the night. When she's not busy dreaming up her next story, Mortimer can be found dancing, traveling, or curled up with a cozy mystery.
Bill Hoyt holds an MA in history from Pittsburg State University.
In 2012, Hoyt won the PSU Graduate Research Colloquium for his decipherment of John Brown Jr's encrypted Civil War correspondence. He has been a featured speaker on the Bleeding Kansas Lecture Series and has addressed the Kansas Association of Historians.
Hoyt's graduate thesis, Good Hater: George Henry Hoyt's War on Slavery, was a PSU Distinguished Thesis finalist and a Topeka History Geeks book-of-the-month selection. In February of 2016, Good Hater was an Amazon.co.uk #1 Bestseller in both the Slavery Biography and United States Civil War categories.
K. R. Smith is a retired Information Technology Specialist living in the Washington, D.C. area who now fills his time with writing, music, and the visual arts. His writing mainly consists of short stories of the horror genre, though he occasionally delves into poetry and even songwriting. His hope is to add a novel to this list someday.
Many of the published works in which he has stories or poems may be found on his Amazon author page, https://www.amazon.com/stores/K.-R.-Smith/author/B00GC1ZVSM. He also has tales of horror in the following anthologies published on Lulu (https://www.lulu.com): A Matter of Personal Taste in Beyond the Shroud, Momma Knows Best in Lonesome Train, and A Home for Christmas in Death and Decorations.
Examples of his other works, especially flash fiction and poetry, may be found on Medium (https://medium.com/@wokrsmith), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/krsmith), Simily (https://simily.co/members/krsmith/blog/), and his blog at https://www.theworldofkrsmith.com/. He can also be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WOKRSmith.
JC Kang's unhealthy obsession with Fantasy and Sci-Fi began at an early age when his brother introduced him to The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Trek, and Star Wars. As an adult, he combines his geek roots with his professional experiences as a Chinese Medicine doctor, martial arts instructor, and technical writer to pen epic fantasy stories.
To learn more about what goes on in his twisted mind, follow his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/LegendsOfTivara/
If you've read and enjoyed his works, keep up with his updates on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/378978352473287
DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020Format: KindleSwords of Darkness is a collection of short stories by different authors. Each story has a sword in it in some way. It is not necessarily the focus but is integral to the story. L.C. Mortimer is the editor of the book. L.C. Mortimer explains in the preface that other than including the sword in the stories, there was no different prompt, so the authors were free to take their story wherever their imaginations lead them. What a great concept.
The stories also vary in genre. Some are fantasy, while others are more on the suspense, supernatural/paranormal end. Each story is enjoyable and easy to read, with a few ah-ha moments. The characters in these short stories are developed quite well. Most of the authors are not known to me, and some of them are not full-time authors. They all wrote entertaining stories.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2020Format: KindleI enjoyed reading the stories in this collection of short stories. They were filled with drama and suspense. The characters were interesting and entertaining. I liked the collection though some stories were so interesting I would have liked to read more about them.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019Format: KindleShort stories about good triumphing over evil, and a valuable lesson being learned. Fighting demons, dragons, or just evil men hurting others, these hero’s take on quests to stop injustices and right wrongs. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021Format: KindleI have been provided with a copy of Swords of Darkness from Booksprout for an impartial review. This box set has the following titles The Price of Ambition by Charles Jake, Hallows Eve Street by Irene Ferraro-Sives, A Test of His Metal by Bill Hoyt, Reynard and the Dragon by Kathleen Danielson, The Soul Road by Shaun Avery, Dance of Swords by J.C. Kang, The Curse of Ennerath by DJ Tyrer, The Sword of Hexworthy Manor by K.R. Smith, and The Vourdelak by Joseph Rubas. I’ll be updating this review as I finish each title.
The Price of Ambition by Charles Jake
Hallows Eve Street by Irene Ferraro-Sives
A Test of His Metal by Bill Hoyt
Reynard and the Dragon by Kathleen Danielson
The Soul Road by Shaun Avery
Dance of Swords by J.C. Kang
The Curse of Ennerath by DJ Tyrer
The Sword of Hexworthy Manor by K.R. Smith
The Vourdelak by Joseph Rubas
- Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020Format: KindleShort stories that will kept reading until the end...
Surprises... twists... magic and darkness...
A book-set for all that love magic and right wrongs
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2020Format: KindleSwords of Darkness by L.C. Mortimer is an awesome set of nine short stories. I loved reading these shrt stories and I can not wait to read what comes next from these authors. I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves reading about fantasy.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016Format: KindleAnthologies are always something of a risk when it comes to spending my limited reading time, but overall I enjoyed Swords of Darkness very much. While the stories are only loosely related, each has some fantasy/sword type relation which makes them ideal to be read off an on throughout your day - no need to sit down and devote a huge block of time.
Some stories are certainly better than others, Bill Hoyt's "A Test of His Metal" is well developed with a satisfying twist, and Charles Jake's piece, "The Price of Ambition" is an enjoyable read that begs to be turned into a longer and more developed work and "Dance of Swords" by JC Kang is a well written slice of something clearly larger in scope that we can hope someday to read in entirety. A few other stories seem less skilfully woven, however overall Swords of Darkness does not disappoint.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020Format: KindleI love anthologies and this one was a blast to read. It was a great way for me to try new authors who wrote a story based on the basic theme of a sword. The worlds and stories that the authors came up with were both different yet fun to read about. They were well written and entertaining to read. They had lots of action, danger, love , enemies, intrigue, and a whole other fun times to be had. I laughed and groaned but had to read them all to see what the next one would be about. Just a good anthology.
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