Karl Edward Wagner

After a botched power-play leaves him a fugitive, Wagner’s anti-hero Kane allies himself with Orted Ak-Ceddi, a former bandit now possessed by a forgotten god, whose cult has swarmed in numbers to conquer cities and even kingdoms before finally suffering their first defeat. Kane transforms Ak-Ceddi’s untrained mob into an army and the bloody conquests resume, though both men know it’s only matter of time before they will clash for control of the power they wield.

A grief-stricken man sees visions of a flapper-era woman at his Tennessee cabin—and discovers he’s not the first.

A college student visits the last man on an abandoned, kudzu-choked street and learns what lurks beneath the vines.