Night Winds: Han

by Karl Edward Wagner

Book Overview

Where once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trails of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only by half men and the waif they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446308129
• ISBN13: 9780446308120
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

A very strong Sword and Sorcery collection, and here the meat is actually in the middle, as a lonely wandering Kane meets women, old comrades, elders races and monsters and ambushes while trying to survive life in general. Which is a long job for an immortal. Night Winds : 1 UNDERTOW - Karl Edward Wagner Night Winds : 2 TWO SUNS SETTING - Karl Edward Wagner Night Winds : 3 THE DARK MUSE - Karl Edward Wagner Night Winds : 4 RAVEN'S EYRIE - Karl Edward Wagner Night Winds : 5 LYNORTIS REPRISE - Karl Edward Wagner Night Winds : 6 SING A LAST SONG OF VALDESE - Karl Edward Wagner You should listen to Kane when he tells you what his woman is like. 3.5 out of 5 Desert dinner convo with a giant leads to a search for a dead king's tomb, and a monster cave sabretooth. 4 out of 5 Kane has a poet friend who Lovecraft probably would have got on really well with. When an arcane statuette comes into Kane's possession thanks to a gambling loan, his mate sees a chance for inspiration. Eldrtich trip undertaken, Kane must endeavour to keep the people still in the real world alive, both against human steel and floating demons. 4 out of 5 Kane, injured and barely conscious and the last of his decimated outlaw band head for shelter at an inn. No love for them there, bounty hunters close, and the Demonlord in the shadows. 4 out of 5 A captive girl leads Kane back to the horrors of an old war. 4 out of 5 A wizard's ritual plot doesn't quite work out. 3 out of 5 4.5 out of 5

Absolutely excellent horror fantasy short stories

If you were immortal, what would your moral code be? Would you gain a reputation as bad Kane's? Would you develop skills like his to survive, especially if you were as certain of the demons that awaited you after death? Kane is not just a violent Sword and Sorcery anti-hero, he is a character you can identify with because you might make the same choices as he does. These are the best fantasy stories I've read, and re-read and read again!

Kane battles Lucifer for his soul.

Kane finds himself near death from a recent battle under a strange moon. Taking refuge with his comrades in an inn he is subtley reminded of past transgressions here. A woman he has once wronged has made a pact with the devil promising her child, the result of her union with Kane, as payment for the devil's help in taking Kane's soul/life and repaying the torment he has given her in the life of her daughter. Kane discovers the pact through logic and the hints of his daughter while trying to escape those that pursue him for a different type of justice. Hampered by his wounds and the need to escape his pursuit, Kane must stop the raving woman from sacrificing his daughter to Lucifer and thus losing his own soul in the process. I highly reccomend the entire Kane series to anyone and of all the books this one is perhaps my favorite.