This was a pre-publication excerpt of chapter three from The Black Company, with slight editing differences to make it stand alone as a short story.

'Raker'-appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1982).

'Shaggy Dog Bridge' and 'Bone Eaters' were republished in The Best of Glen Cook, where 'Chasing Midnight' first appeared.įour other short stories were published but later reappeared as chapters within subsequent novels:

'Leta of the Thousand Sorrows'-appeared in Keen Edge of Valor, published by New Mythology Press (2022).

'Cranky Bitch'-appeared in Songs of Valor, published by New Mythology Press (2021).

'Chasing Midnight'-appeared in The Best of Glen Cook, published by Night Shade (2019).

'Bone Eaters'-appeared in Operation Arcana, edited by John Joseph Adams, published by Baen (2015).

'Shaggy Dog Bridge'-appeared in Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, edited by Jonathan Strahan, published by Solaris (2013).

They are published out-of-order, as the most recently published stories occur before the earlier three. The short stories of the On The Long Run arc all take place within the first 4 years of the 6-year gap between Shadows Linger and The White Rose.

The Many Deaths of The Black Company (collects Water Sleeps, and Soldiers Live) (January 2010).

The Return of The Black Company (collects Bleak Seasons, and She Is The Darkness) (September 2009).

The Books of the South (collects Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike) (June 2008).

The Chronicles of The Black Company (collects The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose) (November 2007).

The Black Company: Glittering Stone II (collects Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live).

The Black Company: Glittering Stone I (collects Bleak Seasons and She Is the Darkness).

The Black Company Goes South (collects The Silver Spike, Shadow Games, and Dreams of Steel).

Annals of the Black Company (collects The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose).

Omnibus editions Science Fiction Book Club hardcover omnibus editions

A Pitiless Rain, the conclusion of the series, release date to determined.

Port of Shadows: September 2018 (a 'lost history' set between The Black Company and Shadows Linger).

The Silver Spike: September 1989 (set after The Books of the North, featuring characters who did not head south).

Green Ronin Publishing published The Black Company role-playing game in 2004.

The series combines elements of epic fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, the Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history. The Black Company is a series of dark fantasy books written by American author Glen Cook.

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