The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach · Book 7

Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords

Published
31 October 2020
Pages
88
ISBN-13
9781786367266
Type
novella
Cover of Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords

About this book

Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords followed The Fiends of Nightmaria in 2020, closing out the seven-novella sequence as its shortest entry at 88 pages, and its most recent installment to date.

Key facts about Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords

Steven Erikson wrote Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, a novella on our list. It has been out since 31 October 2020. The book has 88 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781786367266 to find the main one.

Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords is book 7 of 7 in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with Blood Follows (2002). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.

Additionally, Steven Erikson writes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy and Willful Child, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, No Life Forsaken is the latest published Steven Erikson book on file, from 23 October 2025.

About Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson is the pen name of Canadian author Steve Rune Lundin, a trained archaeologist and anthropologist whose academic background directly shaped his approach to epic fantasy. He is best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series co-developed with collaborator Ian Cameron Esslemont from a shared tabletop role-playing campaign, beginning with Gardens of the Moon in 1999. See every Steven Erikson book in order.

Its place in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords is book 7 in the The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. It follows The Fiends of Nightmaria. See the full The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach reading order.

A run of dark-comic novellas set in the Malazan world, following the necromancer Bauchelain, his monstrous and near-silent partner Korbal Broach, and their long-suffering manservant Emancipor Reese as they wander from one doomed town to the next, leaving chaos, corpses and reanimated horrors behind them. Where the main Malazan Book of the Fallen aims for tragic scale, these novellas are Erikson at his blackest and funniest -- gothic horror-comedy with the pitch-dark wit of a man who clearly enjoys writing…

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