Richard Parks has been writing and publishing science fiction and fantasy longer than he cares to remember . . . or probably can remember. His work has appeared in Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and several “year’s best” anthologies. Other adventures featuring Yamada no Goji were collected in Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter (Prime Books, 2013). A novel, Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate, was published in 2014, and a fourth novel concerning Lord Yamada, Yamada Monogatari: The Emperor in Shadow, will be published by Prime in late 2016. Parks blogs at Den of Ego and Iniquity Annex #3, also known as richard-parks.com.