Die By the Sword Volume II By D.M. Ritzlin
M Ritzlin founded DMR Books in 2015 with the aim of revitalizing sword and sorcery literature DMR s publications include reprints of classic material by authors such as Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith as well as brand new collections and anthologies by some of the finest fantasy writers active today A collection of his own stories Necromancy in Nilztiria was released in October 2020 Nilztiria is a world of adventure and strangeness peopled by lusty heroes and callous villains The thirteen sword and sorcery stories presented in site_link Necromancy in Nilztiria place the emphasis on sorcery and mix in a touch of gallows humor For information on all of his projects visit site_link dmrbooks. M Ritzlin founded DMR Books in 2015 with the aim of revitalizing sword and sorcery literature DMR s publications include reprints of classic material by authors such as Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith as well as brand new collections and anthologies by some of the finest fantasy writers active today A collection of his own stories Necromancy in Nilztiria was released in October 2020 Nilztiria is a world of adventure and strangeness peopled by lusty heroes and callous villains The thirteen sword and sorcery stories presented in site_link Necromancy in Nilztiria place the emphasis on sorcery and mix in a touch of gallows humor For information on all of his projects visit site_link dmrbooks. com site_link 
This collection was a nice change of pace coming off of a fairly long epic fantasy novel Most of the stories are really good A couple are a little esoteric for my tastes including one that I simply couldn t follow even from a narrative perspective But overall I d recommend supporting this indie SS label by picking up a copy Fantasy Die by the Sword Volume II edited by D. M RitzlinCover art by Michael Skillern 2024 The newest installment of DMR s anthology series is filled with twelve new dark visions of sword sorcery There is no introduction to the anthology Which was a little disappointing However each story finishes with a brief bio of the author. This table of contents is a great mix of authors Some I was wholly unfamiliar with A majority are newer voices Names that I have been seeing and often such as Sabatella and Stern Adrian Cole and Howie K Bentley were the two authors I knew best Cole is a living legend of SS and has become quite prolific lately with new stories coming up all over the place I know Bentley primarily for his collection Snake Man s Bane which you really should check out if you haven t. The Barrow of Bel Kadaz by Robert Mammone was fantastic An insult A manhunt A powerful sorcerous artifact Sorcery often subsumes the individual This was one of many stories in this collection that left me clambering for what happens next. Ville Meril inen s Journey to the North was probably the lightest in tone of this lot That is not a critique Certainly a change of pace from the dark sorceries prevalent with the rest of the book. Off to a great start this year with two wonderful releases I cannot wait to see what comes next from DMR Fantasy Adrian Cole Howie Bentley David Carter and Rev Joe Kelly all produced quality stories in this anthology The other six stories didn t do much for me Disappointed overall Fantasy
The clash of steel the mysteries of magic the adventures of a lifetime Die By the Sword Vol II promises daring fantasy and high stakes adventure than ever before From DMR Books and the finest fantasists of our time come TWELVE sensational tales ready to swallow you whole into a world of sword wielding heroes exotic locales strange creatures and malefic magic spells Connwen flees into the Haunted Lands where he makes his stand against the Saxon invaders who killed his tribe and razed his village Summoned by the Elders of Qwaarzm Impyrryan Purple is sent to secure the necropolis at Xul Kizaak Little does he know that the threat is far ominous than that of common grave robbers stealing mummies to sell to the circles of decadent nobility A knight with no name and no memories of his distant past is sent on a mission to rescue a young woman accused of witchcraft from the Drudenhaus at Bamberg Ulxedomus Crown Prince of K Zal wanders a weird world with an alien entity trapped in his left eye socket in search of the usurper to the throne of his kingdom his own brother A curse is placed upon the house of Conal MacCarthy in retribution for a terrible deed from the past Will the MacCarthy family survive the onslaught of the supernatural swordsman set on them by sorcery Return to the ways of steel and sorcery once and DIE BY THE SWORD Stories The Druid s Stone by Adrian Cole Beyond the Necropolis is Another World of Night by Wade German Reflections of a Haunted Mind by Howie K Bentley Her Scarlet Smoke of Sacrifice by Sersa Victory The Barrow of Bel Kadaz by Robert Mammone Balefire Beneath the Waves by Ethan Sabatella The Eye Within the Eye by M Stern The Guard s Tale by Mark Coomer Journey to the North by Ville Meril inen Vothane the Mournful by K. The Druid s Stone by Adrian Cole opens the anthology A great blood and thunder story In the same vein as Arminius Bane of Eagles. Volthane the Mournful by K T Elfering is a classic dungeon crawl but with a horrific twist This was another story I really wanted to know what happens next. A re imagined biblical character is on a bloody quest to recover a priceless artifact in David Carter s In the Wake of the Red Sun. The final story The Two Graves by Rev Joe Kelly would have been quite at home in the collection Samhain Sorceries, T Elfering In the Wake of the Red Sun by David Carter The Two Graves by Rev Joe Kelly Die By the Sword Volume II.[1]
This collection was a nice change of pace coming off of a fairly long epic fantasy novel Most of the stories are really good A couple are a little esoteric for my tastes including one that I simply couldn t follow even from a narrative perspective But overall I d recommend supporting this indie SS label by picking up a copy Fantasy Die by the Sword Volume II edited by D. M RitzlinCover art by Michael Skillern 2024 The newest installment of DMR s anthology series is filled with twelve new dark visions of sword sorcery There is no introduction to the anthology Which was a little disappointing However each story finishes with a brief bio of the author. This table of contents is a great mix of authors Some I was wholly unfamiliar with A majority are newer voices Names that I have been seeing and often such as Sabatella and Stern Adrian Cole and Howie K Bentley were the two authors I knew best Cole is a living legend of SS and has become quite prolific lately with new stories coming up all over the place I know Bentley primarily for his collection Snake Man s Bane which you really should check out if you haven t. The Barrow of Bel Kadaz by Robert Mammone was fantastic An insult A manhunt A powerful sorcerous artifact Sorcery often subsumes the individual This was one of many stories in this collection that left me clambering for what happens next. Ville Meril inen s Journey to the North was probably the lightest in tone of this lot That is not a critique Certainly a change of pace from the dark sorceries prevalent with the rest of the book. Off to a great start this year with two wonderful releases I cannot wait to see what comes next from DMR Fantasy Adrian Cole Howie Bentley David Carter and Rev Joe Kelly all produced quality stories in this anthology The other six stories didn t do much for me Disappointed overall Fantasy | Die By the Sword Volume II By D.M. Ritzlin |
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