KANE - The Mystic Swordsman ranges Earth and Time to confront the demons of darkness Where once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trail of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only with half-men and the waif they call their queen. To the half-burnt tavern where a woman Kane wronged long ago holds his child in keeping for the Devil. To the cave kingdom of the giants where glory and its aftermath await discovery. To the house of death itself where Kane retrieves a woman in love. The past, the future, the present - all these are one for Kane as he travels through the centuries. Cover illustration: Chris Achilleos

Midnight Sun is the companion volume to Gods in Darkness, and collects all of the Kane short stories and poetry. The Complete Stories of Kane. Table of Contents: Death Angel's Shadow (Poem) Undertow Two Suns Setting The Dark Muse Sing a Last Song of Valdese Misericorde Lynortis Reprise Raven's Eyrie In the Lair of Yslsl Reflections for the Winter of My Soul Cold Light Mirage The Other One The Gothic Touch Midnight Sun (Poem) Lacunae Deep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse At First Just Ghostly The Treasure of Lynortis (Early version of "Lynotris Reprise") In the Wake of the Night (lost novel fragment) The Once and Future Kane (Non-fiction essay) Contents: · Death Angel’s Shadow · pm Midnight Sun #1 ’74 · Undertow · nv Whispers Aug ’77 · Two Suns Setting · nv Fantastic May ’76 · The Dark Muse · nv Midnight Sun #2 ’75 · Sing a Last Song of Valdese · ss Chacal Win ’76 · Misericorde · nv Sorcerer’s Apprentice #17 ’83 · Lynortis Reprise · nv Midnight Sun #1 ’74 · Raven’s Eyrie · na Chacal Spr ’77 · In the Lair of Yslsl · ss Midnight Sun #1 ’74 · Reflections for the Winter of My Soul · na Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Books, 1973 · Cold Light · na Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Books, 1973 · Mirage · nv Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Books, 1973 · The Other One · ss Escape! Fll ’77 · The Gothic Touch · ss Elric: Tales of the White Wolf, ed. Edward E. Cramer, White Wolf, 1994 · Midnight Sun · pm Midnight Sun #1 ’74 · Lacunae · ss Cutting Edge, ed. Dennis Etchison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986 · Deep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse · ss The King Is Dead, ed. Paul M. Sammon, Delta, 1994 · At First Just Ghostly · na Weird Tales Fll ’89 · The Treasure of Lynortis · na Kadath Fll ’84 · In the Wake of the Night · ex A Fantasy Reader, ed. Jeff Frane & Jack Rems, 1981 · The Once and Future Kane · ar REH: Lone Star Fictioneer #1 ’75

Kane, a swordsman for hire, discovers the Bloodstone, a source of power left behind by extraterrestrials who had ruled the earth

Kane An immortal, cursed to wander the Earth until he is destroyed by the violence that he himself has created. A warrior and statesman: As comfortable in the shadowy halls of courtly intrigue as he is on the bloody battlefields where those intrigue's inevitably play themselves out. Karl Edward Wagner's complex and compelling character of Kane redefines the boundaries of heroic fantasy, and stands besides Michael Moorcock's Elric, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling characters of the fantasy genre. Gods in Darkness gathers together in one volume the complete novels of Kane. Contents: Bloodstone (1975) Dark Crusade (1976) Darkness Weaves (1970, revised 1978).

Boxed deluxe edition limited to 425 copies signed by the author and illustrator. • Reflections for the Winter of My Soul (1973) • Misericorde (1983) • The Other One (1977) • Sing a Last Song of Valdese (1976) • Raven's Eyrie (1977)

KANE The Mystic Swordsman battles the prophet of an ancient cult of evil that began before the birth of Man. Out of the blackness of an almost forgotten past, the cruel cult of Sataki has come to life again. A daring outlaw, Orted, is its prophet. He draws thousands of converts to his Dark Crusade - TO DESTROY MANKIND. Orted's bloody cohorts conquer Shapeki, but when they drive to vanquish the southern kingdoms they know they must have Kane. Kane is the one man who can command the conquest. But Kane's battle will be against all the diabolic forces of Orted's primeval sorcery...

Once Efrel was the beautiful consort of a king. Now she is a hideous creature who lives only for revenge. She has allies to aid her, but only Kane, the Mystic Swordsman, can rally her forces for battle. Only he can deliver the vengeance she has devised in her knowledge of black magic.