The fourteen original tales this volume run the gamut from gumorous to serious, fantasy to science fiction. These are stories for anyone who has ever played the role of an Evil Overlord, or has defeated an Evil Overlord, or would like to become an Evil Overlord. After all, isn't it more fun to be the 'bad guy'? Some of fantasy's finest have risen to the challange with stories ranging from a man given ultimate power by fortune cookie fortunes, to a tyrant's daughter bent on avenging her father's untimely demise - and by the way, rising to power herself - to a fellow who takes his cutthroat business savy and turns his expertise to the creation of a new career as an Evil Overlord, to a youth forced to play through game level after game level to fulfill someone else's schemes for conquest...