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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Sword and Sorcery Roundup for May 2023

Here's all the sword and sorcery I found published in May 2023. If you notice that I've missed a story, magazine, collection, anthology, or novel, please put it in the comments and I'll update this listing. Here we go.


Cora Buhlert’s First Monday Free Fiction

This month’s entry is “The Tear of Chronos.”


Die By the Sword edited by D.M. Ritzlin

The following stories are included in this anthology.

“Ardax in Antillia” by Dariel R.A. Quiogue
“The Tears of Blood” by M. Stern
“Rites of the Black Goddess” by Paul D. Batteiger
“The Sorcerer’s Scion” by Chase A. Folmar
“The Hound of the Cherusci” by Glenn Rahman
“The Heart of Vengeance” by Gregory D. Mele
“Secrets Only Dragons Know” by Howie K. Bentley
“The Key to the Blood Pyramid” by Matthew Knight
“Snow Fox and Ice Witch” by Rose Strickman
“The Abartachs’ Hostage” by Ethan Sabatella
“The Sacrifice” by Elias Varsity


Fragments of a Greater Darkness by Michael T. Burke

This collection contains six entries in “The Adventures of Ahanu Foxcloud.”


Half-Human Heroes: A Fantasy Anthology edited by Jeremy Fee

This anthology contains the sword & sorcery story “Amaranthine Amphitheater” by Liam Q.D. Hall.


Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #56

Features the short stories “Red-Autumn Seeks His Father’s Bones” by Jonathan Olfert, “Pagan Fires” by Rev. Joe Kelly, and “The Blade’s Bargain” by Robert Luke Wilkins. There are also two poems in this issue—“The Unbitten Fruit” by Oliver Smith and “The Gobbler Raid” by Aidan Redwing—and a comics adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Spear and Fang” by Gary McClusky. 


Hexagon #13

This issue contains a sword and sorcery tale, “The Final Whisper,” by Jonathan Olfert.


The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2023

This issue contains two stories of at least associational interest: “The Dire Delusion” by Matthew Hughes” and “A Truth So Loyal and Vicious” by Fatima Taqvi.


Old Moon Quarterly #4

This issue contains the following s&s stories.

“Pain Wins” by Sasha Brown
“Scourge of Gods” by e rathke
“The Call of the Void” by Kyle Miller
“Death to Your King, and All His Loyal Subjects”

Savage Realms Monthly #20

Contains the usual editorial, plus “Crypt of the Night Queen” by Remy Morgeson, “The Spirit of the Steppe” by Carl Brown, and “Hag of Bones” by W.E. Wertenberger, plus interviews with all the authors.


Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6

This anthology contains the following twelve stories.

“Land of the Dead” by Dev Agarwal
“The House of Bones” by Carson Ray
“Threnody of Ghosts” by Phil Emery
“Wardark and the Siren Queen” by Craig Herbertson
“Otrim” by Lyndon Perry
“Gods, Men, and Nephilim” by David Dubrow
“Golden Witch of Adzelgar” by Scott McCloskey
“Raiding the Graveyard of Lost Ships” by Tais Teng
“A Place of Ghosts” by Andrew Darlington
“Those Who Wear their White Hair Proudly” by Lauren C. Teffeau
“Trials for Treasure” by Harry Elliott
“Gods of the Dreaming Isles” by Adrian Cole


Swords and Sorcery Magazine #136

This month you’ll find the following stories: “The Black Cult of Tarantism” by Mike Adamson, “The Attic of the Mountain King” by Dan Crawford, and “The Bog Witch of Dirk-au-fen” by Vincent Wolfram.


Tales of the Wild: Sword & Sorcery Anthology by Yazar Quint

Despite the subtitle, this book of sixteen stories is not an anthology, but a single-author collection.



Thongor Conquers the Underground World by as by Robert M. Price and Lin Carter


Posthumous collaboration. At 112 pages this is a novella.




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