Morlock, son of Merlin, rides a donkey’s corpse into the burning web of Usli, giant spider and foe of entropy. A sword, bereft of its beloved mistress, recounts for us its quest for their reunion. After the great wars, a goddess washes ashore an island. Its inhabitants, spurred by a mind more murderous than their own, seek to butcher her.

Read these stories, and others, each penned by a modern master of dark fantasy and sword-and-sorcery short fiction in VOLUME 7 of OLD MOON QUARTERLY.