Fantasy Books by Scott Marlowe is live on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music. Follow the show in whichever app you already use, and a new story lands in your feed every week — unabridged, start to finish, no paywall and no credits to spend.
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What is Fantasy Books by Scott Marlowe?
Sword and sorcery audiobooks where magic and mystical technology meet wondrous, explosive mayhem. Some of the best — and worst — characters from the World of Uhl take their turn: assassins and thieves, knights and witches, sorcerers and worse. New stories weekly, plus the occasional bonus tale.
Every book, story, and tale I've written will eventually hit the feed. Rather than scatter them, I'm running one series at a time so you can start at the beginning of each.
First up: Tales of the Assassin Without a Name
The Assassin Without a Name has built his reputation on discretion, skill, and a blade that never misses its mark. But when a routine contract drags him into a deadly conspiracy, he uncovers a secret war that has raged for centuries between death priests hell-bent on freeing an imprisoned god and a secret society willing to condemn a city to stop them.
When the most unlikely of allies—thieves, scientists, sorcerers, and a master thief who knows him better than anyone—are forced together by desperation, the Nameless Assassin must navigate a treacherous web of shifting alliances and ancient vengeance. With a celestial convergence approaching and the barrier between worlds growing thinner by the day, neutrality is no longer an option—and one assassin's choices will decide whether his city survives the coming darkness.
The series runs episodically. Each story is a standalone, so you can drop in anywhere you like. Listen in order, though, and experience the centuries-old war between Warders and death priests, and the assassin who finds himself in the middle, one episode at a time.
The episodes so far
Episode 1 — The Finest Wine
When a routine kill takes an unexpected turn, the Assassin Without a Name finds himself tempted by something far more intoxicating than bloodshed: a vintage worthy enough to justify breaking the rules. But in a world where reputation is everything, can even the finest wine justify mercy?
Episode 2 — Killing the Dead
A job's a job—until it involves killing a man who's already dead. When the Assassin Without a Name is approached by a priest with a strange offer, he expects the usual backroom politics and hush money. What he gets instead is a contract on a necromancer who's already been burned at the stake—and who's about to rise again. To stop the birth of an undead horror, the Nameless Assassin must brave crypts, cultists, and a resurrection ritual that could plunge the city into darkness.
Episode 3 — Night of Zealotry
What starts as a simple job—kill a man, deliver a scroll, get paid—turns into a chaotic, deadly spiral when the Assassin Without a Name finds himself hunted by zealots, harassed by mercenaries, and entangled in a mystery far darker than he bargained for. With a secret cult, a stolen artifact, and an experimental machine capable of horrors beyond imagination, survival means diving deeper into the shadows than ever before.
More arrive weekly. When the assassin stories have run their course, another series takes the slot — with bonus tales dropped in along the way.
A note on the narration
These episodes use synthesized narration rather than a studio voice actor. That's the trade-off: it's what makes a weekly release schedule possible for a one-man operation, and it means you get the stories now instead of someday. The words are mine, unabridged and unaltered.
How to follow
Open your podcast app, search for Fantasy Books by Scott Marlowe, and hit follow. New episodes then arrive on their own, and you'll never have to remember to come looking.
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