Issue ten of Worlds Without Master, an adventure fiction and gaming magazine featuring sword & sorcery short fiction and games from Epidiah Ravachol and many others.
In this issue:
"Because I Clasp the Clouds As Mine," a tale of a shifting identity by Osmond Arnesto.
"The Hoard of Yengra," a tale of commerce and justice by Epidiah Ravachol.
Illustrations by Wendy Martin, Vlada Monakhova, and Tiffany... [click here for more]
Clark Ashton Smith -- widely regarded as the third of the "Big Three" to emerge from the early days of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (after H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- published dozens of weird fantasy tales
"The Abominations of Yondo" is one of his finest.
Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, ePub and Mobi (Kindle) versions of the book.... [click here for more]
How do you win a game that’s trying to kill you?
It’s April, 2003, and Callie Myles is adrift. A 29-year-old games store clerk living in the Appalachian hamlet of Jett Creek, Tennessee, she has nothing to show for a lifetime of rule-following but a mountain of student debt. Life would be unbearable if she didn’t have Winterwind.
A roleplaying game created by Callie’s older... [click here for more]
They disappeared seventy years ago: a group of mystery men and women from the forties. They reappeared in the modern day, lost in time, cut off from the lives they knew and up against a world vastly changed from the one they knew.
Black Owl: the hero out of retirement that left a wife and child behind.
Ghost Woman: a young woman with secrets even she does not understand.
Flag Man & Rusty:... [click here for more]
While most New Pulp histories trace their history back to the 20s and 30s, Pulp Empire is proud to introduce eight new stories of pulp fiction action set in the present day. From Terry Alexander's E-31 to Teel James Glenn's Deacon Furie to Caine Dorr's Commander Knight, Modern Pulp Heroes features over half a dozen great New Pulp heroes, many appearing here for the first time! Plus the book closes... [click here for more]
Nicholas Ahlhelm revives the golden age public domain hero Rulah, Jungle Goddess in the first of an all new series of short stories! Matt Baker's classic art inspires a new take on the age-old jungle girl subgenre. Rulah is really Jane Dodge, intrepid pilot lost in the heart of Africa. But how did Jane become the so-called Jungle Goddess. "The Rise of Rulah" tells the origin of Matt Baker's... [click here for more]
Dateline, 1962. Will Walden was a normal kid. A little overweight and always bullied, Will's life suddenly changes during a lab accident. Suddenly he finds himself not only with super powers but also the owner of a shiny new flying saucer! Will quickly takes inspiration from his favorite comic books and becomes the hero of a city as the mysterious UFO! But can he withstand the attack of a rampaging... [click here for more]