Erik Scott de Bie

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About Erik Scott de Bie

I am a speculative fiction author, mostly writing fantasy, science fiction, and some mix of the two. I'm probably best known for the Forgotten Realms series SHADOWBANE (the tale of a thief turned vigilante paladin, sworn to a dead god), as well as a growing body of short stories in various anthologies and available for download on the web. (Seriously, check my website, it's pretty awesome.)

I am also a known quantity in the gaming industry, designing for the legendary tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons as well as other systems.

When I'm not writing, gaming, or more writing, I compose technical documentation by day and fight injustice by night. I lives in Seattle and am married with pets

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Scourge of the Broken World (World of Ruin Book 4) 5 May, 2021

by Erik Scott de Bie

( 3 )

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Urchin

On the cold, mean streets of Tar Vangr, the ruin-scarred child eked out a desperate, violent existence until a chance encounter.

Knight

The boy named Tithian found his purpose defending she whom he most loves, until she betrayed and left him for dead.

Scourge

Freed of his fetters at last, Tithian Davargorn will pour his rage upon the World of Ruin, and all will tremble.

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Ghoul Island: Based on a story by Sandy Petersen & Matthew Corley (Cthulhu Mythos Sagas Book 1) 14 May, 2020

by Erik Scott de Bie, Sandy Petersen, Matthew Corley

( 36 )

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Five would-be heroes set out to protect the Hazel's Folly on its voyage to the fabled Farzeen, but a storm of otherworldly power scuttles any hope of an easy job. Now stranded in paradise, they find that not all is as it seems, and old grudges left to simmer begin to boil over.

Darkness and rot bubbles up toward the surface, and madness looms over the island in the form of an ancient evil thought long extinct. And beneath it all, a beating, fiery heart whose course will not be denied.

A novelization of "Ghoul Island," a Cthulthu Mythos Saga, now available from Petersen Games, creators of "Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos" for 5e and Pathfinder!

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Shadowed Souls 1 Nov, 2016

by Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes

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Featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman, this dark and gritty “must-read anthology for UF fans”(RT Book Reviews) proves that nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil...

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s Cold Case, Molly Carpenter—Harry Dresden’s apprentice-turned-Winter Lady—must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you’re a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad...

New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s Sleepover finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything “weird.” They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie.

In New York Times bestselling Kevin J. Anderson’s Eye of Newt, Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble’s latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner...

And New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman’s infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals wih some overdue—and nightmarish—vengeance involving some quite nasty Impossible Monsters.

ALSO INCLUDES STORIES BY

Tanya Huff * Kat Richardson * Jim C. Hines * Anton Strout * Lucy A. Snyder * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Erik Scott de Bie *

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Shield of the Summer Prince (World of Ruin Book 2) 29 Nov, 2015

by Erik Scott de Bie

( 13 )

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Bloodbreaker
Though the knight Ovelia Dracaris swore to defend the Blood of Denerre with her life, hers was the dishonored hand that felled the Winter King.

Shroud
After five years as a spymaster, Ovelia resurfaced in a desperate quest for justice that cost her everything: love, her sight, and almost her life.

Shield
Blinded and exiled, Ovelia wards her only remaining friend on his quest to save the burning city of Luether, hoping to find what has eluded her for so long: redemption.

Rave Reviews for Shadow of the Winter King, Book 1 of the World of Ruin:
Great fantasy stories are less about dragons and castles and spells than they are about great characters, people who leap into life off the page and make us care about them, and want to know what happens next.
Then the magic swords and sinister castles, the skyships and pirates and dark secrets become delicious icing on the cake.
SHADOW OF THE WINTER KING has all of these things, and witty repartee, and web upon tangled web of intrigues, and a desperate fight for the future of a darkening world, too. Or rather, lots of fights.
Or to put it another way, this one has it all. And a generous handful of characters I want to meet again, in many sequels to this one.
Lovers of fantasy, this one’s a new epic.
~ Ed Greenwood, Creator of the Forgotten Realms, Best-Selling Author

SHADOW OF THE WINTER KING reminds me a bit of Rothfuss's THE NAME OF THE WIND. Both are complex ruminations on political and personal duty, which are more realistic than cut-and-dried good-versus-evil stories . . . The world-building is superior, the narrative moves forward with good momentum, and the story regularly poses interesting questions.
~ Peter de Smidt, Amazon Reviewer

de Bie has taken off his gloves and delivered a great story that captivates the reader. We become invested in the characters early on, and care about the direction the story goes. There are no "safety" features wherein we, the reader, know certain characters are "safe" because they don't belong to the author. Here, the dialog between characters is crisp yet the prose isn't overwrought with jargon. Although I am a fan of "A Song of Ice and Fire," Martin's work can be as difficult as Tolkien at times. However, Shadow of the Winter King has none of that. The combat scenes are memorable in that they're concise, gripping, and brief.
~ Young Bones, M.D., Amazon Reviewer

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Cobalt City Dark Carnival 5 Dec, 2014

by Rosemary Jones, Erik Scott de Bie, Jeremy Zimmerman, Minerva Zimmerman, Dawn Vogel, Matt Adams, Charlie Kenmore, Amber Keller, Ashley Bates, Nathan Crowder

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Once a generation the carnival rolls into Cobalt City. With faded canvas and chips in the garish paint of the attractions, it could be like any other struggling traveling circus.

But it isn’t. The Carnival de Pomme D’or has been around for centuries. And when it comes through Cobalt City bad things happen: vanishings, murders, inexplicable robberies, a rash of murder/suicides, and a mounting sense of urgency and danger.

The super-heroes of the city have been unable to destroy the carnival before, but those who have witnessed its coming in previous generations can not deny its power. Before the big top rolls out of town, heroes will fall, villains will rise, and Cobalt City will be changed, perhaps forever!

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Shadow of the Winter King (World of Ruin Book 1) 4 May, 2014

by Erik Scott de Bie

( 54 )

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Assassin

Armed with the voracious sword Frostburn, court slayer Regel Winter once shed the blood of countless foes in service to Orbrin the Winter King.

Oathbreaker

But even the coldest steel cannot save those Regel loves: his beloved Princess Lenalin, her daughter Semana, and the Winter King himself, felled by treachery five years ago.

Shadow

Barely an echo of the man he was, Regel forges a pact with the assassin who slew Orbrin, setting out on a deadly quest for vengeance that will change the face of the World of Ruin.

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By Faerie Light: Tales of the Fair Folk 13 Dec, 2013

by Dave Gross, Jennifer Brozek, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Erik Scott de Bie, Ed Greenwood, James L. Sutter, Julia Ellingboe, Torah Cottrill, Andrew Penn Romine, Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski

( 2 )

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Eighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages. Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight.

These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and inspired from folklore from all around the world. They are filled with equal measures of fright and fancy. And this collection includes Andy Romine's "The Forest Also Remembers," which received honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR, VOL. 6.

You see, the fey are different from you and me. They don’t think like us. They don't take kindly to our definitions and ideals. They are more than just the tricksters of legend. They are complicated. And they are everywhere and in wide variety. Call them fairies, spirits, yokai, peri—you will never forget them. We are insignificant in the face of that uncaring, alien intelligence. Until we catch their eye, that is.

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This Mutant Life: Bad Company 13 Nov, 2013

by Frank Byrns, Adam Ford, Folly Blaine, Kathryn Hall, Susan Jane Bigelow, Spencer Koelle, Erik Scott de Bie, Ben Langdon

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This world is full of rotten and spiteful souls, but instead of hiding from the darkness, you'd best be embracing it, son. Mark me words, I come from a position of experience in these things. There are those who work their superhuman magic in the open, flying through the air or dressed in patriotic stars and stripes. But the more interesting stories happen just to the left of this stage, and just a little out of focus.
- Grimm, Supervillain (retired)

This Mutant Life: Bad Company is the second anthology in the series, and turns its focus to the darker side of the superhuman world. The 21 stories introduce the reader to the lives of ancient beings who have walked among us for centuries; teenage runaways taken under the wing of vigilantes; and other mutants who walk the fine line between light and shade.

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Called to Battle: Volume One 25 Sep, 2013

by Larry Correia, Erik Scott de Bie, Orrin Grey, Howard Tayler

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The Iron Kingdoms is a land dominated by mighty warcasters, arcanists who command the terrifying war machines called warjacks. While these epic figures lead armies and shape the futures of their nations, other powerful individuals, no less skilled, forge their own destinies in steam and steel.

Called to Battle is a collection of stories focused on the Iron Kingdoms’ unsung heroes, its skilled mercenaries, and even the horrifying villains who haunt its darker reaches. Track a target through the frozen north with Kell Bailoch, a deadly sharpshooter who kills for the highest bidder; hunt down a group of corrupted human magic users with Narn, a merciless Iosan mage hunter; uncover a sinister sabotage plot with Arlan Strangewayes, Cygnar's premier arcane mechanik; and endure a terrifying journey into the mind of General Gerlak Slaughterborn, a monstrous blighted trollkin with a penchant for devouring his enemies whole and screaming.

These stories draw you deeper into the wartorn landscape of western Immoren and the Iron Kingdoms, where heroes, villains, and those somewhere in between find themselves Called to Battle.

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Use Enough Gun (Legends of the Monster Hunter Book 3) 1 Jul, 2013

by Joshua Reynolds, Daniel Durrant, Brian P. Easton, Miles Boothe

( 8 )

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A lonely wind blows over an unmarked grave... A hunter died here, alone, chewed up and still holding a broken blade. No one will ever come here to pay their respects, nor to silently mouth the words 'thank you'. But the monster paid the price for the hunter's death, and for that night at least, it sure as hell did not feed upon the innocent.

Behold Use Enough Gun, a collection of monster-hunting tales that explore what happens when hunters don't make it home, when they become the very thing that they are sworn to hunt, or when they lose loved ones they are sworn to protect. Bloody and stark with pain, Use Enough Gun is about what happens when the hunt goes wrong.

Third in the popular Legends of the Monster Hunter series, Use Enough Gun explores some of the darkest tales yet.

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Beast Within 2: Predator & Prey (The Beast Within) 21 Nov, 2012

by James L. Sutter, Kerrie Hughes, Joshua Reynold, Wendy N. Wagner, JG Faherty, Erik Scott de Bie, Dylan Birtolo, Michael West, Stephen Blundell, Jennifer Brozek

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Predator and prey. Hunter and hunted.
These aren't your usual shapeshifter stories. These are the stories of bears, tigers, spiders, birds and more. Werewolves in steampunk England. Werespiders in Japan. Werepelicans in Louisiana. Wereferrets in New York.

This is an anthology that shifts the normal perceptions of who is the predator and who is the prey. Come take a walk on the wild side with the most unusual of guides and enjoy Beast Within 2.

Beast Within 2: Predator & Prey features stories by Erik Scott de Bie, Dylan Birtolo, Michael West, Kerrie Hughes, James L. Sutter and more…

BEAST WITHIN 2: PREDATOR AND PREY

PREDATOR

Solitary Instincts by Wendy N. Wagner
The Strange Affair of the Viennese Mathematician by Joshua Reynolds
The Adventure of the Missing Trophy by Mark W. Coulter
Blood Will Tell by JG Faherty
Vanessa McAvoy’s Statement by Kelly Swails
Ties of Silver by James L. Sutter
The Long Road to Sanctum by Richard Farnsworth
Masako’s Tale by Michael West

PREY

Help Wanted by Lydia Ondrusek
Act Natural by Tyler Hayes
Desperate Housewolves by Erik Scott de Bie
Life Decisions by Dylan Birtolo
Papa Pirana by Angel McCoy
Deserter by Gabrielle Harbowy and Marie Bilodeau
Corvidae by Kerrie L. Hughes
In One Stride Comes the Dark by Kenneth Mark Hoover

A collection of provocative and primal stories about transformation. From the whimsical to the deeply affecting, the tales in Beast Within 2 makes one think about the dance between predator and prey, human and the animal mind.

- J. Damask author of Wolf at the Door

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Shadowbane: Eye of Justice: The Shadowbane Series 4 Sep, 2012

by Erik Scott de Bie

( 49 )

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Praise for Downshadow, by Erik Scott de Bie
"Erik Scott de Bie meets the challenge of writing a compelling story while working within the constraints of a media tie-in novel. . . . de Bie demonstrates a deep knowledge of the Forgotten Realms setting and infuses the narrative with bits of history and mythology where necessary. Reading Downshadow, I very much felt that the story was taking place in a larger world that had a rich history. . . .The exposition is presented narratively and only when necessary. The story is compelling and the outcome open enough to compel a reader to desire more. Shadowbane himself is a bit of a cipher, but his character does grow as the story progresses. He starts as a generic superhero, but by the end of the book readers are beginning to see the personality behind the mask. I am eager to see the character develop further. Many likable characters die in the story and there is a cameo or two from other Forgotten Realms tales that provide nice Easter Eggs."--Cinerati

Overview:
Rumors are swirling around the dark corners of Westgate that a brutal vigilante is dealing violence and havoc in the guise of Shadowbane. Kalen and Myrin have just arrived from Luskan, in search of Kalen's former apprentice, Rhett. Though Kalen believes Rhett to be dead, Myrin won't give up hope as she in turn seeks more information about her past. And Kalen too must find his place, perhaps in the Eye of Justice--the organization that trained him--though that's the last place he wants to end up. But who are is this mysterious vigilante who wields the vaunted sword Vindicator? Myrin and Kalen have no idea that a game is being played in which they are only pawns. All is not as it seems in Westgate.

Read More:
If you are looking for the first book in the Shadowbane storyline by Erik Scott de Bie, search for "Downshadow" by Erik Scott de Bie.
If you are looking for more sword and sorcery, search for "Brimstone Angels" a new novel by Erin M. Evans, featuring a kickass warlock heroine who sets out to unravel the schemes of an evil succubus in the ruined city of Neverwinter.
If you are looking for more adventure fantasy, search for "The Shard Axe" by Marsheila Rockwell, a chilling mystery set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons Online.
If you are looking for more stories set in the Forgotten Realms, search for "Twilight Falling" by Paul Kemp, about Erevis Cale, an assassin with a conscience.
If you are looking for more epic fantasy series, search for "Homeland" by R.A. Salvatore, the first book in the epic Legend of Drizzt.

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