In The Realm of the Wolf

By Walter Lazo

Bart returns to his home town to await an evil he can no longer avoid. As he waits, he questions the decisions he has made that have led him to this fate, and he wonders if perhaps he has sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of those he loves for the sake of a higher cause that may prove to be beyond him. For an ancient evil has fixed its eyes upon him, and its minions are coming to claim him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Walter Lazo
• Release date: Jan 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301731510

Walter Lazo

“Our free short stories are intended as a doorway to our more mature premium works. Their purpose is to showcase the author’s writing style and use of evocative imagery. Although these are his earlier works—he has gotten much better since—they serve as a nice introduction to his thematic concerns as well as to his belief that a story has to be believed in to be effective. Therefore, what he presents in these stories are situations and the reactions of characters within those situations.”Walter Lazo was born in Cambridge, MA, and now lives in North Carolina. As a child he discovered his love of Weird Fiction and large, epic, heroic stories, as well as German and Greek mythology, devouring the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, the Grimm brothers, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Walter grew up reading the short stories of Richard Matheson, and later discovered the works of the great science fiction writers of the 20th century; namely, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.He enjoys writing horror and science fiction stories with an occasional martial arts story thrown in for good measure. He is currently obsessed with the short story form and hopes that it will make a comeback in popularity. As an adult he has tried to create his own mythos, writing about the Demon World and other creatures that torment men’s dreams.He is a longtime fan of Stephen King and of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.! ! ! A T T E N T I O N ! ! !Our Forums Are Now OPEN!Join us at: http://werewolfwinter.com/forum/

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In The Realm of the Wolf

by

Walter Lazo

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ISBN 978-1301731510

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Other Works From The Author

IN THE REALM OF THE WOLF

One

The Lord of Filth, Dread Marduel, stood upon his mountain, a structure so large it appeared capable of swallowing whole worlds, and gazed down on his domain, which stretched out in all directions, flat land in perpetuity, bordered only by his hateful rivals and their mountains within the Demon World. Marduel is the Wolf God, the Destroyer, the God of all-consuming Hate. He is a giant, built like a powerful man, with patches of coarse brown hair all over his body. His head is that of a mutilated wolf, as if hundreds of heads had been crushed together into the mold of only one. Marduel raised his head to the fire sky, the barrier that kept all mortal worlds safe from the ravages of demons, and saw the ashen peak of his terrible mountain, Izan—which in the ancient tongue means abomination—pushing into the burning sky. Soon all worlds would be open to him, he knew this, felt this in his rotting heart. He shifted his gaze downward, again, and saw his minions—terrible werewolves like emaciated bears—locked in eternal struggle with the servants of his hated rivals, those in his heart he saw as the Lesser Gods. They were all beneath him and forever would be, for his power came from everlasting hate, from rage and bitterness; and these streamed into him from all the worlds at once. They made him stronger; they made him greater; and with every act of malice his mountain grew. He hungrily