All Darkness Met
core novel 1980 Dread Empire
Record
| First published | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (648 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 336 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425065419 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
All Darkness Met closes out the opening trilogy of Glen Cook's Dread Empire series, bringing to a head the escalating conflict between the western kingdom of Kavelin, the mercenary captain Bragi Ragnarson and his allies, and the vast, sorcery-driven armies of the Empire of Shinsan under its immortal rulers. With earlier betrayals and half-buried prophecies now fully in play, the fractured western principalities must decide whether old rivalries can be set aside in time to face an enemy whose power dwarfs anything the mortal kingdoms have fielded before. The novel draws together the political, military, and supernatural threads built up across the first two books as Bragi and his companions confront the full weight of the Dread Empire's ambitions.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dread Empire
- Series: Dread Empire core; position 5 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glen Cook
Notes
- From the series record (Dread Empire): Original trilogy, two later-written prequels, and a run of sequels; the planned concluding volume was never finished after the manuscript was lost. A ninth title, "Wrath of Kings," was considered but excluded: on inspection it is an omnibus edition bundling books 6-8, not a standalone novel with an independent reader-rating pool.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Dread Empire: position 3 of 8: previous October's Baby (1980) · next The Fire in His Hands (1984)
- Internal chronology, within Dread Empire: position 5 of 8: previous October's Baby (1980) · next Reap the East Wind (1987)
Sources
← Dread Empire dossier · All universes
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