Maxwell Volume reviewed The Scour by Richard Swan (Empire of the Wolf, #0.5)
A pleasant enough vignette
3 stars
Nothing earth-shattering, but quite enjoyable. Sufficiently so that I plan to immediately start on the first novel.
English language
Published Oct. 20, 2025 by Grimdark Magazine.
A HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE
A JUSTICE ACCUSED OF MURDER
AND A SINGLE QUESTION
What is The Scour?
In the dying port town of Gdansburg, Sir Konrad Vonvalt finds the unthinkable: a fellow Justice imprisoned for the murder of a young boy. Despite the furious insistence of the townsfolk, the only evidence is a question written on a piece of paper by a dead man: what is The Scour?
The answer begins in the town’s haunted lighthouse and ends in its past-where Vonvalt may dig up more than he bargained for.
Nothing earth-shattering, but quite enjoyable. Sufficiently so that I plan to immediately start on the first novel.