Night and Demons

A collection of horrific, weird, and fantastic tales by a master storyteller and creator of best-selling military science fiction. Here are weird stories set in the present, along with alternative histories filled with gritty realism and exacting detail as well as an assortment of horrors and monsters. Most of all, here are the tough heroes who throughout time master their own fears and face the very real terrors that haunt existence. Sometimes these heroes win a partial victory. Sometimes it's enough to go down fighting. Before Drake was a best-selling author of military science fiction, he was a prolific writer of horror and fantasy short fiction. "Denkirch," Drake's first sale, is here, and well as many stories set in the worlds of his fantasy novels ( Ranks of Bronze, Lord of the Isles, and others). More than just a collection of stories, Night & Demons features extensive story notes that chronicles the development of the writing career of one of science fiction's most popular writers, and provides detailed snapshots of the larger-than-life editors, publishers, and writers with whom Drake has worked throughout his career. A bout David Drake: "[T]he way Drake takes a tried formula and turns it on its ear is what makes him one of the modern masters of SF." Otherwhere Gazette "[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tank … rivals Crane and Remarque …" Chicago Sun-Times "Drake couldn't write a bad action scene at gunpoint." Booklist About David Drake's RCN series: "[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera." -- Publishers Weekly on the "RCN" series. "The fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!" Philadelphia Weekly Press "[S]pace opera is alive and well. This series is getting better as the author goes along…character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs." SFReader.com

David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. His books include the genre-defining and bestselling “Hammer’s Slammers” series, the “RCN” series including In the Stormy Red Sky, The Way to Glory, and many more.