Ogres, Raiders, and Fools: Tales From Before the Swarm

"A few years before the first appearance of the Swarm, after the Final War, outside the ruins of Baltimore, there lived two dangerous creatures. The first was a radghoul with a talent for imitating voices..."

Humans, mutants, and bio-engineered OGRES lived in the ruins in the time before the first Swarm, even after the Final War. Their stories have passed into legend, but they are still told by those who survived the second Swarm.

Here are tellings of nine of those old stories, from "The Widow's Son Helps Himself" to "Farslice," sure to delight the lover of any of these traditional 23rd century post-apocalyptic tales.