Last Chance to Order Evangeline Walton Books

Two Evangeline Walton books, published by Nodens Books, including the novel Dark Runs the Road and the short story collection Above Ker-Is, will cease to be available as of midnight, Sunday May 24th 2026.  So if one is at all interested in getting copies, do so soon. (Click on the covers to read the text.)

 

Dark Runs the Road is available until then as a trade paperback (ISBN 9798304520089) or a Kindle e-book. 

Above Ker-Is and Other Stories is available until then as a trade paperback (ISBN 9798631395268) or a Kindle e-book. 

Order via the Usual Places.  

Also, Walton's short novel She Walks in Darkness (ISBN 9781616961336), first published by Tachyon Publications in 2013, is now in low stock and when remaining copies sell, it will be out-of-print. 

Dark Runs the Road by Evangeline Walton

I've just published a new book, a restored edition, under its original title, of a novel by Evangeline Walton. Her manuscript was cut by one-third by the original publisher (presumably to reach a standard page count), and published under a different title, which the author did not approve. This edition restores the text that was haphazardly chopped out, and restores the novel's original title, Dark Runs the Road. 

In 1956 it had been called The Cross and the Sword when published in New York by Bouregy & Curl. In 1957 it was called Son of Darkness when published in England by Hutchinson. It has long been out of print.

The new edition is available in trade paperback (ISBN 979-8304520089) and in Kindle format at the various Amazon incarnations. I couldn't resist using two of the Lewis Chessmen on the cover; see below. The rear cover, with the descriptive blurb, appears below that. (Click on the illustrations to make them larger.)

I think this is one of Walton's finest novels, and it's great to see it available again, allowing modern readers the chance to see if they agree with me. 

 

 

Evangeline Walton's SHE WALKS IN DARKNESS now in print

Another quick note to call attention to the fact that Tachyon Publications has just published for the first time Evangeline Walton's novel She Walks in Darkness, a kind of Gothic thriller written in the 1960s.  Tachyon has done a splendid job packaging it, with an excellent cover by Thomas Canty, an introduction by Paul di Filippo, and blurbs by Tim Powers and Patricia McKillip.  There is also a short afterword by me about the background of the manuscript. She Walks in Darkness is published as a trade paperback at $14.95, and can be ordered via Amazon US by clicking here for the paperback and here for the Kindle ($7.99), and via Amazon UK by clicking here for the paperback (£12.50). 

(Click on the covers to see larger versions.)

Evangeline Walton's ABOVE KER-IS AND OTHER STORIES

A quick note here to call attention to the announcement of a new volume collecting all ten of Evangeline Walton's fantasy short stories, four of which are published for the first time.  The details are posted at the new publisher's website, Nodens Books.