Paizo Publishing will publish Infernal Sorceress, the “legendary lost novel of the late Gary Gygax, the co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying phenomenon,” next month.
Paizo Publisher Erik Mona explains where the book came from: “A few months before Gary passed away, I asked if he had any unpublished fiction sitting around, thinking perhaps that I might put together an anthology of his short fiction. When he responded that he had an entire novel ready to go, I almost fell out of my chair. Infernal Sorceress is Gary’s eleventh and final novel, produced when he was at the top of his game as a novelist. We are honored to be bringing the book to the public for the very first time, and I know Gary was pleased that the story will finally find an audience.”
Infernal Sorceress is set on the same Aerth that was the setting for Gygax’s novels The Anubis Murders, The Samarkand Solution, and Death in Delhi. This book follows two new characters&8212;the handsome swordsman Raker and his cunning daggerman Ferret, a duo of rough-and-tumble rogues ready for the intrigues and adventures of a hostile world—through swashbuckling swordplay, past hideous monsters, and solving puzzling mysteries.
For more on Gygax, see our obituary published in March.