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Swashbuckling & Pirate Adventure: The Seaward Edge of Sword & Sorcery

Inferno Books / September 4, 2026

One swordsman meets danger with a flashing rapier, a defiant smile and a feather sweeping from his hat. He vaults […]

Sword & Sorcery has never needed heroes who are particularly good. It needs heroes who are dangerous: Mercenaries, thieves, kings,

How Robert E. Howard imagined the forgotten ages before history “Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans

Long before many of us knew the name Robert E. Howard, we knew the shape of his world. We knew

Night settles differently over an old city. The market stalls have closed, but commerce has not ended. Torchlight spills from

There are old roads whose first travellers no map remembers. A weathered stone standing alone upon a hill. The broken