Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter

Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter

The Heroic Legends Series

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Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today’s top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery.

“And about the table where stood the Dark Man, immovable as a mountain, washed the red waves of slaughter.”

Dr. Elijah Blackthorn, a psychometric archaeologist with the Miskatonic Institute of Technology, seeks to validate the Dark Man statue discovered within one of the shattered pillars of the famed battlefield. Watched by an elderly priest and nun, he lays hands on the Dark Man.

Blackthorn is witness to a bloody, second century battle between the Picts and the Romans. Aided by his son, Taloric, Bran Mak Morn fights the Roman soldiers who seek to rescue the bastards of Emperor Diocletian, captured by the Pict wizard Gonar. But the sorcerer needs those of royal blood for a ritual sacrifice… an act which will send arcane ripples down through the centuries.
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Praise for Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter

Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks. —Stephen King


In Howard's grim and all too realistic view, the barbarians are always at the gate, and once a culture allows itself to grow soft, decadent or simply neglectful, it will be swept away by the primitive and ruthless. —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post


I read books, and I dreamed of Mars, and the planets in those books, and of the Hyborian Age of Robert E. Howard’s Conan books… —George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones


Howard wrote pulp adventure stories of every kind, for every market he could find, but his real love was for supernatural adventure and he brought a brash, tough element to the epic fantasy which did as much to change the course of the American school away from precious writing and static imagery as Hammett, Chandler, and the Black Mask pulp writers were to change the course of American detective fiction.—Michael Moorcock, award-winning author of the Elric saga 


Those of us who believed in Conan at the right moment in our lives never stop believing. We might not grow up to become him, but we never grow out of him, either. —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians
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The Heroic Legends Series

El Borak: The Siege of Lamakan
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness
Bêlit: Bone Whispers
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls
Conan: Terror from the Abyss
Conan: Lethal Consignment
Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter
Bêlit: Shipwrecked
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
Conan: The Child
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Steven L. Shrewsbury
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