The Dark World
Kindle Edition
Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · December 19, 2012
Henry Kuttner's Sword and Sorcery classic returns to print at last!
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- Who it’s for
- A crash-survivor’s passage into magic and swordplay makes for a darkly uncanny fantasy read.
- Themes
- Magic and swordplay, Belonging, A shadowy mirror of the real world
- Genres
- Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy
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Henry Kuttner's Sword and Sorcery classic returns to print at last! World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar.
Continue reading
In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth.
A Familiar Shadow
A crash-survivor’s passage into magic and swordplay makes for a darkly uncanny fantasy read.
Come here for
- A giant wolf, a red witch, and a portal called the need-fire
- Swordplay and sorcery in a shadowy mirror of the real world
Expect
- Werewolves, wizards, and witches in a contest with a dread lord
- An unsettling pull between Earth and a stranger world
Where it sits
| Fantasy | 38% |
|---|---|
| Dark Fantasy | 26% |
| Sci-Fi | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy
- Epic Fantasy
- Historical Fantasy
- Authors
- Henry Kuttner
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 19, 2012
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Magic and swordplay · Belonging · A shadowy mirror of the real world
- Reading lane
- Fantasy