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Rakefire and Other Stories
2020
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Fever Dreams of Sword-and-Sorcery in an Eld Realm of Unfathomable Beauty and Cruelty A psychotic witch, driven by the spirits of her murdered sisters, seeks out the secret of a ruined city and the formless horror that destroyed it… An impudent sorcerer, contemplating the outer beyond between stars, threshes shadowy demons from the lightless outside… A holy man and a pauper mage delve the devil-haunted maze of a dead wizard of legend… A nameless sorceress takes a thrall and gains a name… A guttersnipe transforms hatred into a force of nature… A reluctant scholar, forced to confront his impermanence, abandons hearth and wealth for a doomed passion… Hope steams as hot blood in the snow… Plus other enigmatic tales of horror and fantasy in the pulp tradition.

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Jason Ray Carney
Jason Ray Carney
Author · 2 books
Jason Ray Carney, Ph.D. is a lecturer in popular literature and creative writing at Christopher Newport University; he is the author of the academic book, *Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and H.P. Lovecraft* (McFarland 2019) and the sword and sorcery collection, *Rakefire and Other Stories* (Pulp Hero Press 2020). He co-edits the academic journal, *The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies* and is the editor of *Whetstone: Amateur Magazine of Pulp Sword and Sorcery.* He is the area chair of the "Pulp Studies" section of the Popular Culture Association.
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