The sun beats against his neck. The white arena sand dazzles his eyes. The massed boos and catcalls shake his bones and evil sorcery stirs against him. He is a beast, a thing, given a puny sword and a shield, here to fight for the pleasure of Moloch of Flames, a First Born, and his Nephilim sons, giants each one. He is Lod, and he is the beast of Elohim, a killer and an outcast. Alone among his enemies, he is surely doomed to die before the chanting crowd of thousands. Lod wages a brutal war against the sons of angels, the Nephilim. Each tale is of novella length, told by Vaughn Heppner, Writers of the Future winner.

A Nephilim giant scours the mountains for slaves, using a necromancer, merciless henchmen and primitive hunters. The giant also seeks the perfect woman to impregnate, to bear his strapping son. He is like a god to these pathetic humans, an all-powerful champion, doing whatever he desires. But Manus Farstrider doesn’t count on Lod, a killer with a seething mission of vengeance, a man many call mad, because Lod doesn’t know when to lie down and die. It’s a fight to the finish, a brutal struggle between life and death and between a giant and a man. Lod wages a fierce war against the Nephilim of the Pre-Cataclysmic World. Each tale is of novella length, told by Vaughn Heppner, Writers of the Future winner.

Lod enters the forests of Zimri, a gloomy world of oaks, barbarians and the terrible Esus Tree. There the savages hoist the living, leaving them to dangle by their throats from the bloodstained branches. Esus is their hidden god, a First Born. He has spawned half-animal sons, the abominable Emim. Armies clash in this bloody tale. Lod is a scout for the spearmen of Assur, enemies of the forest barbarians. Evil sorcery brings forth horrors and the dark god of the forest twists human passions to his vile ends. Lod battles the offspring of fallen angels and stands against perverted spells that warp the hearts of men. Each tale is novella in length, told by Vaughn Heppner, Writers of the Future winner.