It was an age of adventure. An age of sorcery. An age of unrelenting horror. Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden temples SWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous magic. But you will also uncover bloodcurdling chills, spine-tingling horror, and an examination of those things that truly terrify.

When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series, The Pack, by Bram Stoker Award winner Mike Oliveri. Book two, Lie with the Dead, is excerpted in this edition.

At the end of book one of Mike Oliveri's werewolf noir series, "Winter Kill," FBI special agent Angela Wallace lay in a hospital bed attempting to make sense of the bloody shootout with drug smugglers that nearly left her dead in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, and the mysterious, reclusive Tyler family that seems to be at the heart of all her questions. "Lie with the Dead" continues Agent Wallace's search for answers, where the trail leads her to a deserted mining town in Nevada and, once again, finds herself fighting for her life against unseen enemies hell-bent on keeping dark secrets buried. But the truth she uncovers is deadlier than she ever imagined.