Tales of the Witch-King · Dark Fantasy Horror

The Witch-King

In Wilderwood, the Hollow always collects its due.

The Witch-King by Scott Marlowe

Book One is FREE. Read it tonight. Listen in the dark.

Free at Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords, and my own store, with Barnes & Noble joining October 16. Full audiobook free on YouTube, Google Play, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.

NewBook Two, The Hollow’s Due, is out now →
Posted at the Edge of Wilderwood
  • Never answer a voice from the trees.
  • Never follow a light into the fog.
  • Never burn wood that glows.

The Witch-King by Scott Marlowe
Book One · Free

The Witch-King

Do you dare enter the cursed heart of Wilderwood?

Three hundred years ago, a golden forest called the Verdant Crown turned black. The border folk call it Wilderwood now, and only fools and treasure hunters go in, chasing a witches’ hoard said to lie beneath its cursed heart.

Five of them make camp in the Hollow. Their guide spins a tale by the fire. Then the fog begins to whisper, the dead gather at the edge of the light to watch, and something that was once a king rises out of the dark to welcome his guests.

Surviving the night means nothing. In the end, the Hollow always collects its due.

A 5,300-word dark fantasy tale. Short enough to finish before midnight.

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Won’t Price-Match

And then there’s Amazon.

Every other bookstore agreed to give The Witch-King away. Amazon refused to match the free price, so there it costs 99¢.

Keep your coin and choose any store above. Or, if Amazon is where you read, the 99¢ edition waits for you here.

It seems the Hollow isn’t the only one collecting a toll.

Amazon · 99¢
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Listen in the Dark

Both tales are narrated in full on my YouTube channel. Best with headphones. Better with the lights off.

Channel members hear every new tale first. Everyone else gets it free two weeks later.


The Hollow's Due by Scott Marlowe
Book Two

The Hollow’s Due

The Witch-King let them go. It did not release them.

Lista hasn’t slept a night through since they fled Wilderwood. In the old temple songs she has found a rite that could hold the Witch-King at bay long enough to reach the Holdfast, the hoard beneath the Hollow. But the rite is missing its final five lines.

Only one soul still knows them: Morwenna, the witch who doomed the forest three centuries ago. She has waited a long time for someone to ask.

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This Halloween

Wilderwood is waiting.

Start with Book One. It costs you nothing. At least, nothing you’ll notice right away. Already survived it? The Hollow’s Due is waiting.

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