Lee
The world building isn’t as fleshed out and grandiose as Between Two Fires, but I find Lüthi’s action and descriptors to be way more detailed and gruesome. This is heavy metal hell yeah type of demonic action (mainly in the titular first short). I mean, read these excerpts for a taste of where it goes:
- “With a sound like a stillborn corpse being birthed.”
- “Her sword sang through the air, its fire trailing like the tail of a comet.”
- “A soft glow appeared just below the hellspawn’s ribcage; the light was enough to illuminate the thousand veins that lined the creature’s stomach, knotting together like a city map.”
- “Its entrails hung from it like a fetus to an umbilical cord.”
I shockingly did not love the middle Viking short, but the closing Arthurian short was fun albeit not to the same heights and brutality of the opening short. Suffice it to say, if you’re looking for gothic/folk/medieval horror, give this a swift swing.
The world building isn’t as fleshed out and grandiose as Between Two Fires, but I find Lüthi’s action and descriptors to be way more detailed and gruesome. This is heavy metal hell yeah type of demonic action (mainly in the titular first short). I mean, read these excerpts for a taste of where it goes:
- “With a sound like a stillborn corpse being birthed.”
- “Her sword sang through the air, its fire trailing like the tail of a comet.”
- “A soft glow appeared just below the hellspawn’s ribcage; the light was enough to illuminate the thousand veins that lined the creature’s stomach, knotting together like a city map.”
- “Its entrails hung from it like a fetus to an umbilical cord.”
I shockingly did not love the middle Viking short, but the closing Arthurian short was fun albeit not to the same heights and brutality of the opening short. Suffice it to say, if you’re looking for gothic/folk/medieval horror, give this a swift swing.