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TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP is the fourth book of the Books of Cthulhu series by Crossroad Press (Tales of the Al-Azif, Tales of Yog-Sothoth, The Book of Yig). It is an anthology featuring pulpy tales of horror starring Outer God and his myriad plots as well as games. Nyarlathotep is functionally omnipotent and treats humanity like ants underneath a magnifying glass. He is impossible to kill but perhaps capable of being thwarted. Or maybe that's just what he wants you to think.

Once upon a time in a faraway realm called Cordysia, there lived two Elven heroines who shared many adventures, struggles, and a deep love for and partnership with each other. Through a series of circumstances, after many centuries in their home realm, they found themselves exiled in our world... Earth. For a long time, they had to conceal their true identities and even to some degree their relationship, living among a people who weren't yet ready to accept two non-Humans in their midst. And then, in the early 23rd century, Humankind made first contact with an extraterrestrial species from ...

1986. It's been seven years since the passing of Alan Madison, former private investigator and founder of the Los Angeles-based firm Madison-McKinley. His daughter Nancy, now a curator for the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, acquires through chance an unusual and mystical artifact of seemingly Indigenous origins. But its true origins and nature are far more mysterious... and potentially dangerous. Its discovery catches the attention of those in power, and those with dubious motives. Not knowing where else to turn and needing help, Nancy calls on her father's most trusted ...

Hollywood, the late 1940's. Actress and stuntwoman Alivia Chambers is brought in to the police for questioning on account of a witness observing something humanly impossible on the set while filming a rather unusual motion picture. As things begin to unfold, Los Angeles police detective Alan Madison becomes privy (for a time at least) to certain details of a story which has its origins long ago... once upon a realm... a story of two extraordinary women... a story you likely wouldn't believe. Ariel Archer and C.J. Pearson bring you a Kindle Vella original with connections to both the Once ...

Irmyl, a young woman of Hunnic descent (but raised amongst a Germanic tribe along the Danube River in the mid fifth-century CE), is confronted with a difficult task. Three years earlier, the Huns were pushed back in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains by a combined force of Roman and Germanic troops, a battle that cost Irmyl's father and many in her village their lives. The notorious Hun leader, Attila, is now dead, but his son Ellac is once again threatening an invasion that will take the Huns straight through Irmyl's home.

The realm of New Sylestia had enjoyed a thousand years of peace, protected by a powerful Sequestering spell. But the harmony that had once existed between Elf and Human society is now threatened from within, and Lorewyn, an Elven archer and war heroine haunted by her own past, is caught between her heritage and loyalty to her most beloved friend...and fighting for her human neighbors and a higher cause.

Dragon attacks for the first time in centuries. An elusive darkness rising in the east beyond the Crescent Mountains. A sinister plot to undermine the security of New Sylestia from within...and a pair of Elven warrior maidens caught in the middle of it all, with only their devotion to each other keeping them alive and giving them the strength they need to overcome such adversity, not only for themselves, but for their people and their realm.

In the year 2525... the United Planetary Conference (UPC) makes first contact with a new planet in the Beta Arguli system, Hyrmozanyx. The initial encounter has some pitfalls and Lorewyn (a UPC Ambassador) is sent to smooth relations and extend a olive branch, along with Rhianyn (a UPC Fleet Admiral who's commanding the mission) and their daughter Noelyn (who's now an officer and ship's navigator in the Fleet). What they discover is a strange new world indeed... an unusual and seemingly utopian society whose hierarchy is governed by standards of physical beauty. What's further discovered ...

Khendryll, a young Acolyte from the rigidly theocratic realm of Khelyria, has an experience when he’s a boy. He witnesses something wonderful and magical that changes his life and drives him to want to explore a deeper understanding of spiritual and mystical truth, an understanding that is forbidden by the Clerics of Jurryk. His trust in his progressive mentor shaken and his best friend alienated by an impulsive decision on his part, Khendryll eventually gives up and accepts the traditional interpretations of the Temple, becoming a Cleric himself and denying what he once believed.

Blythe, Lorewyn’s trusted and devoted lifelong Unicorn companion, has stood faithfully by the Elven maiden’s side from the beginning of her days in New Sylestia until even now, traveling with her in a post-Cordysian immortal kind of existence. She has been Lorewyn’s conscience, protector, loyal steed, comforter, counselor, and cherished friend. But now, through a strange and tragic mishap during passage from one realm to another, Blythe experiences a horrible loss of memory, one that not even Lorewyn with her degree of power can mend. Unable to remember her past, her own identity, or ...

Faedrya, the ancestral Faerie realm of Velyxi, Lorewyn’s mother, and her kin who once made Cordysia their home, Lys’elth and Onarys. A beautiful and magical world, largely untouched by mortal fate. But the Celestial Oracle, whose counsel has long guided Faedrya through ages of peace, is now passing beyond time and space and offers its final words of direction for the ancient realm and its inhabitants. A new Arbiter is chosen, and the Oracle has dictated that the Marshall of the North, Nyvendra, is to fill the role. The fallout is nothing like the Faerie folk have ever seen, for no one ...

Rhianyn's mother, Traphaunes' wife, a student of Cordysia's greatest Elven teacher, a veteran of the First Sylestian War, one of new Sylestia's cultural architects, guildmaster of the War Mages, accomplished poet (although few knew), midwife, mentor to Elven cadets, and some even believed a prophetess.

Long ago, the allied kindreds of Cordysia fought a costly war against the evil Pirryneus and his minions, Orks and Dragons, including his most formidable co-conspirator the mighty Elder Drake Brykkael. Pirryneus and his forces were defeated, and Brykkael himself was slain. But now, 300 years later, evidence has reached New Sylestia that the wealth collected and hoarded by that fallen serpent ages ago and thought long-abandoned and perhaps only a myth might've at last been found.

For a millennium and a half, through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and Victorian Era, keeping their identities secret, living through the centuries, making their mark subtly on human history until 1921, when this duo decide to come to America following the First World War and H1N1 pandemic, landing on Ellis Island and beginning a 100-year period of new and sometimes rather unusual adventures, navigating American society of the 20th and 21st centuries, dealing with all sorts of controversies and complexities, and at times having a lot of fun.

Get ready for a leap into nostalgia and childhood dreams. Contained are four short stories from the Secondary Epoch, a time between wars, when Unicorns still frolicked in woodland glades, magical winged creatures still gracefully flew in the skies above, with Dark Lords still exiled in depths, and evil somewhere between a distant memory and a future that seemed far and remote. See the realm through hopeful hazel green eyes and experience the magic as if for the very first time.

Fairport's darkest hour in the midst of a deadly plague and burning city, when only a brave elderly magistrate stood between an angry mob and a winged warrior trying to keep the people safe. The perils of war and invasion by enemy armies, countered by an Elven maiden and her bow. The intervening acts of Unicorns. Dwarves with the strength of stone and the craft and cunning of a human mage contending against the power of a demon. Even the last days of the realm itself and the escape of its few survivors into a new world. All these events and more.

Civilization is getting a rare opportunity to witness a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a now well-advanced-in-years Lorewyn, to hear the untold tale of her and Rhianyn's enduring tenure on Earth following their exile from being immortal realm-travelers and guides, and how these two extraordinary women from a different existence, helped the human race to embark on a journey that took them past the stages of bigotry, xenophobia, and division, to reach out toward the stars in unity and with love, and explore new realms in the spirit of peace.

Europe, 454 CE. King Ardaric of the Gepids is leading a force of Germanic troops to stop the Huns, led by Ellac, son of the now-deceased notorious Attila, once and for all. As Irmyl (mentored by Lorewyn) aids her people in the fight against Ellac, all eyes seem to be looking west toward Pannonia as the storm clouds gather and war is imminent.

An innocent Human child is murdered by an Elven artisan in the village of Foxglove Falls, under Lorewyn's jurisdiction as Constable. With the child's parents and the rest of the village outraged - and rightfully so - the administration of justice falls into the hands of a divided Elven tribunal...with Lorewyn's reputation and a promise she made on the line. Tristyn Caelbryn, a young novice Mage, is faced with a dilemma when the Nullification Act is passed in New Sylestia by the Elven council, preventing humans from continuing to practice the magical arts.

A group of adolescent Elven militia cadets from New Sylestia on a seemingly routine training exercise in Highvale. A puzzling power play involving a young Human heiress and her pending marriage to a young man that could unite a kindred in the region. An ancient teacher from Cordysia's distant past...and a novice archer's unexpected but necessary undercover mission, playing the part of someone who by appearances is essentially her identical twin! Learn more about The Viscountess and the Valeguard!