The Beasts of Hades by Graham Diamond (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia) is the 4th novel in his Adventures of the Empire Princess quartet of vintage throne-reclaiming epic high fantasy quest adventures, this installment the one where the series-titular heroine finally reclaims her throne, with the help of her rather Disney sidekick-sounding animal friends who accompany her on a descent into the underworld realm of the enemy, free courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press's Venture imprint, who are e-printing it from its 1981 paperback originally out from Playboy Press, which was apparently reviewed by Theodore Sturgeon, according to ISFDB.
We've previously received the 2nd in the quartet as a freebie as well, some time ago:
Dungeons of Kuba
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK and pretty much everywhere else worldwide that Amazon sells, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because sfnal freebies are always welcome, and Venture are really being quite generous in giving us more parts of a series to try out even as they promote their stable of hopefully rescued-from-obscurity backlist authors for nostalgic Gentle Readers to revisit and new audiences to discover.
Enjoy!
Description
The Haven is doomed…
From the tranquil forests of the Haven, a small and gentle rabbit brings a message.
The peace of the empire is now threatened by vicious creatures, maddened with blood-lust. And in their violent wake, there is an unearthly creature: not animal, not man.
With her trusted wolf at her side, and the small rabbit as a guide, Stacy the Empire Princess begins a hellish descent far beneath the forest.
In a subterranean world of fire and brimstone lives the true enemy.
But their plans do not include either the feeble human race or the many animals that live on the earth’s surface in the idyllic land of the Haven.
It is up to Stacy and her animal friends to put a stop to their evil machinations, and end forever their plot to transform the peaceful world into another hell.
The Beasts of Hades is the fourth and final instalment of Graham Diamond’s superb Empire Princess series. Stacy must not fight for once and for all if she is to stop the merciless onslaught of vicious beasts that has descended upon her tranquil Haven.