Sam Sykes

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2010
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Aeons' Gate

1 - Tome of the Undergates (Sep-2010)
2 - Black Halo (Apr-2011)
3 - The Skybound Sea (Sep-2012)

Bring Down Heaven

1 - The City Stained Red (Oct-2014)
2 - The Mortal Tally (Apr-2016)
3 - God's Last Breath (Dec-2017)

The Grave of Empires

1 - Seven Blades in Black (Oct-2018)
1.5 - The Gallows Black (May-2019)
2 - Ten Arrows of Iron (Aug-2020)
2.5 - The Iron Dirge (Dec-2020)
3 - Three Axes to Fall (Dec-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Pathfinder Tales

35 - Shy Knives (Oct-2016)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Tome of the Undergates

    Aeons' Gate - 1

    ADVENTURER. The term has long been synonymous with cutthroat, murderer, savage, zealot, and heathen. And Lenk, an errant young man with only a sword and a decidedly unpleasant voice in his head, counts all five among his best and only associates. Loa...

  • Black Halo

    Aeons' Gate - 2

    THE TOME OF THE UNDERGATES HAS BEEN RECOVERED... ...and the gates of hell remain closed. Lenk and his five companions set sail to bring the accursed relic away from the demonic reach of Ulbecetonth, the Kraken Queen. But after weeks at sea, tensions...

  • The Skybound Sea

    Aeons' Gate - 3

    After the misadventures of the first two books Lenk and his companions must finally turn away from fighting each other and for their own survival and look to saving the entire human race. A terrible demon has risen from beneath the sea and where it c...

  • The City Stained Red

    Bring Down Heaven - 1

    STEP UP TO THE GATES After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world's beating heart. The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness. They've come to claim payment for creatures...

  • The Mortal Tally

    Bring Down Heaven - 2

    The heart of civilization bleeds. Cier'Djaal, once the crowning glory of the civilized world, has gone from a city to a battlefield and a battlefield to a graveyard. Foreign armies clash relentlessly on streets laden with the bodies of innocents c...

  • Shy Knives

    Pathfinder Tales - 35

    Shaia “Shy” Ratani is a clever rogue who makes her living outside of strictly legal methods. While hiding out in the frontier city of Yanmass, she accepts a job solving a nobleman’s murder, only to find herself sucked into a plot involving an i...

  • Munchkin Vol. 4

    Keep your friends close and your enemies"what are we saying? Your friends are your enemies!Dungeons, monsters, and trickery"welcome to the world of Munchkin! Join Spyke and Flower as they do whatever it takes to get the loot. Based on the popular...

  • Brave Chef Brianna #4

    Brianna must go up against Madame Cron in the ultimate Monster City cook off in order to save her restaurant from closing!...

  • Munchkin Vol. 6

    Kill the monsters. Steal the treasure. Stab your buddy. Based on the immensely popular Steve Jackson card game, Munchkin comes to comics!Stealing, lying, and backstabbing might not go over well in the real world, but in the world of Munchkin, anythin...



  • Brave Chef Brianna

    Brianna Jakobsson has big cooking dreams, and when her ailing restaurateur father poses a challenge to his only daughter and fifteen sons, she seizes the opportunity. Sheâ,"s going to have the best restaurant around and earn the family empire. T...

  • God's Last Breath

    Bring Down Heaven - 3

    Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the exhilarating conclusion to his Bring Down Heaven trilogy. The great demon Khoth-Kapira has broken free of his prison and taken his first step upon the mortal world. And he owes it all to Lenk. Believing ...

  • Seven Blades in Black

    The Grave of Empires - 1

    Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with a brilliant new epic fantasy that introduces to an unforgettable outcast magician caught between two warring empires. Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Ca...

  • The Gallows Black

    The Grave of Empires - 1.5

    A standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed Seven Blades in Black. To the city of Last Word, one of the last freeholds in a land rent asunder by ...

  • Ten Arrows of Iron

    The Grave of Empires - 2

    The second novel in an epic fantasy trilogy that follows an unforgettable outcast mage caught between two warring empires. Sal the Cacophony-outlaw, outcast, outnumbered-destroys all that she loves. Her lover lost and cities burned in her wake, al...

  • The Iron Dirge

    The Grave of Empires - 2.5

    A standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed Seven Blades in Black and Ten Arrows of Iron. Sal the Cacophony does not make friends.  Whe...

  • Three Axes to Fall

    The Grave of Empires - 3

    A deal struck in a dark place set an outlaw mage on the path to revenge. And now that it’s led to places even darker, she and everyone she knows may pay the price for her bargain in the final novel of “an unforgettable epic fantasy” trilogy (Pu...

  • Dream of the Falling Axe

    ​A standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed The Grave of Empires trilogy. Sal the Cacophony solves problems no one else can. Because she's cau...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sam Sykes has published 17 books.

Sam Sykes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dream of the Falling Axe, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, was published in September 2010.

Yes. Sam Sykes has 3 series.
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