The Bone Dancer (Tale II of the Valruna Saga)

By Christopher Courtley

Epic sword and sorcery fantasy meets weird fiction and horror in this second installment of the Valruna Saga, an ongoing series of tales in the tradition of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Fritz Leiber. The first tale, "The Temple of Baal-Zebub", introduced the character of Vana Valruna and her reluctant campaign against the Baals, the four demonic Lords that rule the ancient world.

Join this wild northern barbarian warrior woman/sorceress and her trusted guide and companion the wily thief Jerob as they are inexorably drawn into a desperate spiritual battle between the noble gods of the north and the terrifyingly alien deities worshipped in strange desert lands to the south and east.

In this tale, having fled the wicked desert city of Bel-Athis with the wrath of the devil-god Baal-Zebub at their backs, Vana and Jerob stop for a much-needed rest at a caravanserai on their way to the great port city of Rakasad. But there are forces bent on capturing and punishing the infamous desecrators of the Temple of Baal-Zebub, the most formidable of these being led by the Bone Dancer, the bloodthirsty Left Horn of the sinister Baal-Qarnaim, or "Lord of Two Horns", and by his influence it is not long before the ultimate betrayal turns what at first seemed like a safe haven into a most deadly trap.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Courtley
• Release date: Jan 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301163106

Christopher Courtley

Christopher Courtley lives in the vast, ancient, crumbling haunted house of his own imagination, perched precariously upon the windswept edges of the cliffs of insanity. There he spends his absinthe-fueled nights writing feverishly, whilst Nightgaunts dog his every step into the deepest regions of the netherworld of his darkest dreams and naked succubi call to him with lurid siren songs that would wake the dead.

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