Continuing stories in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy

What has been really interesting to see in the ten volumes of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy published so far are some worthwhile and fascinating series of stories that follow on from each other like a serial.

One of the first of these was Dev Agarwal's Stone Snake stories, which started off in Volume 2 with "Stone Snake", "In the Iron Woods" in Volume 4, "Bridge of Sorrows" in Volume 5, and, finally, "Land of the Dead" in Volume 6.

 

Another series is Harry Elliott's Under-Valley stories: "Skulls for Silver" in Volume 5, "Trials for Treasure" in Volume 6, "Blades for a Bounty" in Volume 7, "Masks for the Madness" in Volume 10. 

 

We have also Geoff Hart's humorous play on Ffafrd and Gray Mouser with his female protagonists Mouse and Freya, which starts with "Chain of Command" in Volume 1, "At Sea" in Volume 4, "The Quality of Mercy" in Volume 8, and "Safe as Banks" in Volume 10.

 

Of course Adrian Cole has switched from one continuing character to another, from Elak of Atlantis to the mysterious Voidal. And Andrew Darlington's Eternal Assassin.

 

I am sure I have missed some, but it's fascinating how many continuing characters there are in sword and sorcery which, much like detective stories, seems made for them.