Rogue Blades Presents:
Rage of the Behemoth:
An Anthology of Heroic Adventure

Special Pricing on Limited Collector Covers!

~ Standard Edition Cover:

~ Special Limited Edition Covers:

• ISBN: 0982053622
• ISBN-13: 978-0982053621
• Trade Paperback (6×9)
• 154,000 words in 354 pages
• Regular Cover: $16.99 / eBook: $7.99
• Limited Edition Cover Numbered: $20.00
• Tiny URL for linking http://tinyurl.com/RotB09
• Released: June 2009

This RotB Anthology contains 21 stories about the biggest, baddest, boldest behemoths ever to roar across the pages of heroic adventure! Over 150,000 words of monstrous mayhem record the ferocious battles that rage between gargantuan creatures of myth and legend and the warriors and wizards who wage war against, beside, and astride them. Behemoths and battles will be presented in four-story sections of five different habitats introduced by the stunning illustrations of John Whitman and headlined by well-known authors Mary Rosenblum, C.L. Werner, Brian Ruckley, Lois Tilton, and – writing together for the final time - Andrew Offutt and Richard K. Lyon.

Frozen Wastes, Scalding Sands, Depthless Seas,
Mysterious Jungles, and Ageless Mountains

~ Cover art by 2 special artists: Johnney Perkins and Didier Normand! ~ The cover of the regular edition of RotB portrays a behemoth from one of the four stories in each habitat in five divisions on a single wrap-around cover. ~ There are also five limited collector’s edition covers with a single creature from each habitat in its own wrap-around cover.

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Table of Contents:

• Frozen Wastes

  • Mary Rosenblum ~ Ice Dragon ~ “Blood Ice”
  • Carl Walmsley ~ Hydra ~ “Serpents Beneath the Ice”
  • Jeff Stewart ~ Giant Bear ~ “Nothing Left of the Man”
  • Bill Ward ~ Wolf-God ~ “The Wolf of Winter”

• Scalding Sands

  • Lois Tilton ~ Giant Sand Cobra ~ “Black Diamond Sands”
  • Michael Ehart ~ The Behemoth ~ “As from His Lair, the Wild Beast”
  • Martin Turton ~ Sagarki ~ “The Hunter of Rhim”
  • A. Kiwi Courters ~ Manticore ~ “Stalker of the Blood-Red Sands”

• Depthless Seas

  • Andrew Offutt & Richard K. Lyon ~ Chinese Turdragon ~ “Portrait of a Behemoth”
  • Sean T. M. Stiennon ~ Giant Crab-creature ~ “Black Water”
  • Robert Mancebo ~ Storm Djinn ~ “Passion of the Stormlord”
  • Kevin Lumley ~ Sea Monster ~ “The Beast”

• Mysterious Jungles

  • Brian Ruckley ~ Giant Serpent ~ “Beyond the Reach of His Gods”
  • Bruce Durham ~ Yaggoth-Voor ~ “Yaggoth-Voor”
  • Jason Thummel ~ Elephantine-God ~ “Runner of the Hidden Ways”
  • Kate Martin ~ Cockatrice ~ “Poisonous Redemption”

• Ageless Mountains

  • C.L. Werner ~ Gashadokuro ~ “The Rotten Bones Rattle”
  • TW Williams ~ Griffin ~ “Where the Shadow Falls”
  • Jeff Draper ~ Wen Quaar ~ “Thunder Canyon”
  • Daniel R. Robichaud ~ Bear-God ~ “Vasily and the Beast Gods”

Awards

*Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2009 Top-10 Winners:

“Yaggoth-Voor”
by Bruce Durham
~ 2nd, SF&F Short Story

“Poisonous Redemption”
by Kate Martin
~ 7th, SF&F Short Story

“Where the Shadow Falls”
by TW Williams
~ 9th, SF&F Short Story

Reviews

John Ottinger III at Grasping for the Wind ~ “…takes the best of Robert E. Howard and revitalizes it for the twenty-first century.”
Theodore Beale at Black Gate ~ “It is Conan, but it is Conan with a soul.”
Eric Turowski on Amazon ~ “This is Sword & Sorcery done right…there is an energy to the stories that harken back to the pulp roots of the genre.”
Earl L. Morris on Amazon ~ “…all the shorts are quite good reads.”
Deuce Richardson at The Cimmerian ~ “…this newest offering from RBE…has upped the ante…All in all, Mr. Waltz, his artists and his authors have plenty to be proud of.”
John Harmon on Bookstove ~ “If you love stories of sword-slinging action with a little magic and big creatures tossed in, this collection will get you cheering.”
Paul R. McNamee at Paul’s Scribblings ~ “…this is a great anthology. If you enjoy heroic fantasy and sword-&-sorcery…a wonderful collection here.”
Gustavo Bondoni on SFReader.com ~ “…Rage of the Behemoth delivers…fast-paced and action-packed…an ideal companion for when you’re in the mood for action in leviathan-sized chunks.”
Dale Strickland on LibraryThing ~ “Rage of the Behemoth has a nice style to it.” 4 Stars
James Maxey at OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show ~ “…spurring the tropes of epic heroic adventure into a full speed gallop to deliver pure, unapologetic entertainment…I, for one, am glad to have discovered this magnificent collection.”
Mihai Adascalitei at Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews ~ “…an anthology that is full of frightening beasts, courageous heroes and plenty of action and fighting scenes resulted [sic] from the clash between them, making from Rage of the Behemoth a collection that delivers adventure in its purest form.”

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