Gateway Essentials
6 total works
Kane. The Mystic Swordsman becomes the living link with the awesome power of a vanished superrace.
In the dark swamp where toadmen croak and cower, slumbers a secret relic of the days when creatures from the stars ruled the Earth. In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dead, within the forest.
Now Kane, whose bloody sword has slashed and killed for the glory of other rulers, can scheme to rule the Earth - himself!
Collects five occult tales about Kane, red-haired and left-handed mighty being:
• 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)
A quest that takes Kane into forbidden wastelands, and tests his killer skills against the most brutal forces ever summoned against a single man. Kane faces death duels in strange swamps, assassins' attacks, the heart-freezing terror of the werewolf - and lives to laugh at danger. But he knows that his strength, and perhaps his very soul, is lost when he enters the erotic web of the vampire...
Contents:
"Reflections for the Winter of My Soul"
"Cold Light"
"Mirage"
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.
Contents:
"Undertow"
"Two Suns Setting"
"The Dark Muse"
"Raven's Eyrie"
"Lynortis Reprise"
"Sing a Last Song of Valdese"