Experience your favourite fantasy worlds through some of the most fearsome, devious, and brutal antagonists in fantasy. Villains take centre stage in nineteen dark and magical stories that will have you cheering for all the wrong heroes as they perform savage deeds towards wicked ends. And why not? They are the champions of their own stories—evil is a matter of perspective. Authors: R. Scott Bakker (The Second Apocalypse) Adrian Tchaikovsky (Shadows of the Apt, The Tiger and the Wolf) Michael R. Fletcher (Manifest Delusions) Shawn Speakman (The Annwn Cycles) Teresa Frohock (Los Nefilim) Kaaron Warren (The Gate Theory, Mistification) Courtney Schafer (The Shattered Sigil) Marc Turner (Chronicles of the Exile) Jeff Salyards (Bloodsounder's Arc) Mazarkis Williams (The Tower & Knife) Deborah A. Wolf (The Dragon's Legacy) Brian Staveley (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne) Alex Marshall (Crimson Empire) Bradley P. Beaulieu (The Song of the Shattered Sands, The Lays of Anuskaya) Matthew Ward (Shadow of the Raven, Coldharbour) Mark Alder (Banners of Blood) Janny Wurts (The Wars of Light and Shadow, The Empire Trilogy) E.V. Morrigan (Glyph War world) Peter Orullian (The Vault of Heaven) Artists: Tommy Arnold (cover) Jason Deem (interior art) Shawn King (design)