Tag: David J. West

  • Ninety-Nine Deaths of the Monkey God

    by David J. West in Issue 7, August 2012 The dripping heat of Bhustan hung on them like a stinking towel from a diseased bathhouse. The slayers swatted bloodsucking flies or pulled leeches that dropped from putrid trees. The jungle demanded a blood debt and the captain of these slayers, a man known as Kold,…

  • ‘Hel’ Awaits

    by David J. West in Issue 2, March 2012 Swift as Thor’s thrown hammer, the tawny-haired giant of a Northman dropped the plank, barring the alabaster-framed door against the caliph of Andalusia’s other guardians. Immediately, the puzzled but dedicated Almohadian bodyguards pounded on the oaken doors demanding entry. Only the voluptuous harem remained with the…