Fred Saberhagen

The never-before-told story behind the legend of Count Dracula....

World-famous “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes faces a terrible crisis: a ring of criminal masterminds has threatened to loose thousands of plague-infected rats into the streets of London....

In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces now rule the land, keeping all humans under their oppressive thumbs....

There had been a battle. The berserker had met some terrible opponent, and had taken a terrible wound.

The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assassinated during the Holiday of Life festivities on the planet Salutai.

For a game, the gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession....

In post-Arthurian England, 10-year old Amby and the troupe of traveling players he belongs to are on the run from a conqueror....

A classic time-travel story. The settlers and tourists on Azlaroc are trapped in an ageless void during Veilfall, when shimmering rays of pure energy fall on the planet and create a time pocket....

Returning to the milieu of his Swords trilogy, Saberhagen offers a new scenario....

Mark and Ben travel deep into the Blue Temple's hidden horde of treasures in an attempt to recover gold and Swords for Sir Andrew....

Magistrate Wen Chang, famed for his investigative powers, and his young physician assistant, Kasimir, set out to recover Stonecutter and return the stolen Sword to its rightful owner, Prince Mark....

The Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come....

In a sector of the Galaxy occupied by Earth-descended people, one Berserker computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tactical strategy unlike anything seen before....

Before George Lucas's Death Star, before Star Trek's Doomsday Machine, came the Berserkers, intelligent, space-faring killing machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all life....

Prince Murat of Culm possesses Coinspinner, the Sword of Chance which brings untold good fortune to its owner....

Long, long ago, two alien races fought a war of extinction. All that is left of either of them are the berserkers: vast, thinking, spacefaring, killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things....

Five hundred years have passed since the combined fleets of humanity met and broke the berserker armada at Stone Place.

This collection of short stories continues the ongoing saga of the berserker wars with “The Machinery of Lies”, “Masque of the Red Shift”, “In the Temple of Mars”, “Brother Berserker”, and “Smasher”....

Tom Scheffler knew that this great-uncle, Montgomery Chapel, had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artifacts....

To defeat the ultimate weapon, you must become one! Once mankind feared the berserkers, killer machines determined to eradicate all life in the universe...