With Sword and Pistol
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941987567 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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With Sword and Pistol is a cracking good collection of short stories "With Sword and Pistol" is a collection of four previously published short stories by Mr. Erdelac. As he notes in his introduction, the stories are only related by the fact that the protagonists of each story may be a little less than heroic, but they all use either sword or pistol. The stories themselves range from feudal Japan, to 19th Century pirates, to Sinbad, and finally, to 21st Century Chicago street gangs. Each story was well written, using language and dialect that set each one apart. Eac. An excellent collection of sword and sorcery stories Amazon Customer With Sword and Pistol is a collection of four novellas by Edward M. Erdelac which, if not for the final story, could have easily been classified as a Sword and Sorcery work. As such, it's now, instead, a collection of three Sword and Sorcery stories as well as one dark urban fantasy one. This dissonance is kind of annoying but is mitigated heavily by the fact three of the four stories are very good. The fourth? Mostly good. Ed is a talkative author who provides each of the stories an introduction w. "Exciting Quartet, Not for the Faint of Heart" according to Edea Pitre Baldwin. There's a reality competition show called "Forged in Fire" in which professional smiths fashion swords, knives, and speciality weapons, e.g. a Viking ax. While testing the sharpness and strength of the weapons, the judge says, "This will kill" with a bit of an evil smirk. The first story in this collection reminded me of that, as protagonist Kumada Sadahiko proved his expertise at decapitation and overall slicing and dicing. This first selection involves jikininki, a type of zombie, and it was so g
Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he now lives in the Los Angeles area with his family.. Erdelac is the author of the acclaimed Judeocentic/Lovecraftian weird western series Merkabah Rider, Buff Tea, Coyote's Trail, Andersonville, and the compiler of Abraham Van Helsing's papers (in Terovolas). About the AuthorEdward M. In addition to short story appearances in dozens of anthologies and periodicals, he is an independent filmmaker, an award winning screenwriter, a game designer, and sometime Star Wars contributor
Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he now lives in the Los Angeles area with his family.. Edward M. Erdelac is the author of the acclaimed Judeocentic/Lovecraftian weird western series Merkabah Rider, Buff Tea, Coyote's Trail, Andersonville, and the compiler of Abraham Van Helsing's papers (in Terovolas). In addition to short
Collecting four incredible novellas in one volume, these are the writings of Edward M. "Sinbad and the Sword of Solomon" is set in 796, where Sinbad the Sailor leads his crew to a monster-haunted island to retrieve a magic sword from its demon owner. "Red Sails" is set in the year 1740 when British marine and a Dominican Blackfriar are hunted across a cannibal isle by a savage crew of shapeshifting pirates. Hundreds of years removed. But they all fight to the bloody end With Sword and Pistol.. And "Gully Gods" enters the modern era, where a South Houston gangbanger learns the utterly horrific secret behind the incomprehensible powers of a Liberian clique of ex-child soldiers. Thousands of miles apart. "The Night of the Jikininki" is about a sadistic samurai sword tester who leads a pair of criminals in a bid to escape a prison filled with the ravenous walking dead. Erdelac (Merkabah Rider) from some of h