C. L. Werner
C. L. Werner, a desert rat telling tales of fantasy and horror in worlds near and far.
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Exiled to the blazing wastes of Arizona for communing with ghastly Lovecraftian abominations, C L Werner strives to infect others with the grotesque images that infest his mind. He is the author of over thirty novels and novellas in settings ranging from Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer 40,000 to the Iron Kingdoms, Mantica, Beyond the Gates of Antares, and Wild West Exodus. He has also written 'The Get of Garm', an official story featuring Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane. Most recently he added the Marvel Universe to his chronicle of misdeeds with the prose novel The Sword of Surtur from Aconyte Books. His novella Himalayan Horror was featured in the Cryptid Clash series from 18th Wall Productions. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, among them Rage of the Behemoth, Sharkpunk, Kaiju Rising, A Grimoire of Eldritch Investigations Volume I, Edge of Sundown , Shakespeare vs Cthulhu, City of the Gods, Mech: Age of Steel, Crossbones & Crosses, Silver Screen Sleuths, Marching Time, and several issues of Tales from the Magician's Skull.
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Memento Morbid
Published Sep 18, 2020 · 10,050 words (37 minutes) · 1 like · 93 views
Horror Mystery ghost pulp reprint Samurai Occult Detective
In 1950's Phoenix, Occult investigator Byron Flay struggles to solve a series of grisly murders that have a macabre connection to ancient evil and the battlefields of WWII.
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The Worm of Edo
Published Aug 30, 2020 · 3,869 words (15 minutes) · 1 like · 91 views
Fantasy Horror cthulhu Samurai
A Cthulhu Mythos story set during the Tokogawa Shogunate, where the samurai Shoichi risks body and soul to rescue his friend Yokokawa from a fiendish cult.
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Entombed in the Dawn
Published Aug 27, 2020 · 6,702 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 110 views
One of my early stories, written in the fashion of the old horror pulps, in which a team of anthropologists make a ghastly discovery in the backwaters of Transylvania.
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The Lost Blitzkrieg
Published Aug 16, 2020 · 7,481 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 105 views
Science Fiction time travel Dinosaurs! WWII pulp Weird War
During the 1940 invasion of France, a reconnaissance group from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division finds more than they bargained for in the village of Anjou. Strange science now pits them against enemies from the primordial past. A story written in the style of the classic pulps.
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The Rotten Bones Rattle
Published Aug 14, 2020 · 11,988 words (44 minutes) · 108 views
Fantasy Monsters reprint Samurai Ninja Shintaro Oba
Demon-hunting samurai Shintaro Oba comes to Cripple Mountain seeking the horrifying monster that haunts its desolate slopes, but the gashadokuro is far from the only danger that awaits him there.
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Red Steel
Published Aug 14, 2020 · 3,643 words (14 minutes) · 2 likes · 112 views
Years after escaping Stalin's Russia, an American engineer is pursued by a vengeful scientist and his creation.
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The White Wyrm
Published Aug 14, 2020 · 11,513 words (42 minutes) · 127 views
Fantasy Monsters sword & sorcery
German knight Wolf von Klinge, captured by Vikings, is swept into the jungles of Central America where he finds the last bastion of the Toltecs and becomes embroiled in a struggle between rival priesthoods and the fearsome monster they worship as the White Wyrm.
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The Crypt of the Cobra
Published Aug 12, 2020 · 8,525 words (31 minutes) · 89 views
Fantasy Monsters sword & sorcery
Escaping from the Sultan's dungeons, a roguish band seeks to claim the treasures within the lost Black Crypt, unaware of the ancient evil that lurks in the tombs.
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My Name is Charlie Day
Published Aug 12, 2020 · 3,995 words (15 minutes) · 1 like · 129 views
Historical western Bounty Hunter
When vicious bounty hunters decide to claim the reward for outlaw Charlie Day, they find collecting their blood money isn't as easy as they thought.
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