Delusion's MasterA recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won numerous awards for her craft, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. Delusion’s Master is the third book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. A long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Chuz, Prince of Madness, third of the Lords of Darkness—beauty on one side, foul corruption on the other—“takes pity” on the world. In his gentle, soft embrace, mortal minds repose in a tide of illusion and twisted desire. Yet no one is immune from the sweetest madness of all, and even immortals fall at the cast of the bone dice…. Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love. Discover the wonder that is the Flat Earth. |
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... heard her, it paid no heed. If the night heard her, it paid none. And if Nemdur, the king, where he sat in his palace with his new queen, if he heard her, then he stopped his ears. At midnight, Jasrin screamed. She flung the bone from ...
... heard her, it paid no heed. If the night heard her, it paid none. And if Nemdur, the king, where he sat in his palace with his new queen, if he heard her, then he stopped his ears. At midnight, Jasrin screamed. She flung the bone from ...
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... heard all the sleepy children wake and begin to wail and shriek, as if accusing her, and thus she ran the faster, from the camp and back through the city gateway. Up the streets, wide and narrow, she ran, and near the palace she checked ...
... heard all the sleepy children wake and begin to wail and shriek, as if accusing her, and thus she ran the faster, from the camp and back through the city gateway. Up the streets, wide and narrow, she ran, and near the palace she checked ...
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... heard her voice, her words were like gibberish. It was to him as if she spoke in another tongue. And when his councillors ventured to persuade him from his madness, they too spoke in this alien tongue, or another tongue even more alien ...
... heard her voice, her words were like gibberish. It was to him as if she spoke in another tongue. And when his councillors ventured to persuade him from his madness, they too spoke in this alien tongue, or another tongue even more alien ...
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... heard. Aloft, the hopeless slaves craned from their ominous skeleton of scaffolding, and the white radiance of the rising disc limned their gaunt bodies even as it limned the troughs of bricks, the struts of bones. All now in utter ...
... heard. Aloft, the hopeless slaves craned from their ominous skeleton of scaffolding, and the white radiance of the rising disc limned their gaunt bodies even as it limned the troughs of bricks, the struts of bones. All now in utter ...
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... heard a step upon the stair, a distorted ghostly memory of a blond prince or a rust-haired devil stole over her. Her fear took another direction at the thought, but she was unsure whether to defend herself or to plead his friendship ...
... heard a step upon the stair, a distorted ghostly memory of a blond prince or a rust-haired devil stole over her. Her fear took another direction at the thought, but she was unsure whether to defend herself or to plead his friendship ...
Contents
All About Bhelsheved | |
Night Works | |
A Sacrifice | |
The Magical Engine | |
Sunfire | |
Moonflame | |
An Image of Light and Shadow | |
Seventeen Murderesses | |
Mother and Daughter | |
The Aloe | |
Love and Death and Time | |
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Azhrarn Baybhelu beasts beautiful began beheld beneath Bhelsheved bird blood bone burning child Chuz cloak color comet cried crowd crystal daughter DAW BOOKS death Delusion’s Master desert dice door Druhim Vanashta Dunizel earth Eshva eyes face fear fell fire flame Flat Earth flowers garden gate gazed girl gods gold golden golden temple gone grew hair hand heard heaven holy ichor Jasrin knew lake lamps laughed light looked Lords of Darkness mage magician maiden man’s moon mother murderesses Nemdur never night once pale perhaps philosopher pool priests Prince Madness Prince of Demons sand screamed seemed servant shadow Sheve silver skin smiled snake sorcerous soul Soveh spoke stared stars stone stood storytellers stranger Sunfire Tanith Lee temple tent thing tier tower trees turned un-brother Underearth Upperearth Vazdru village voice walked whip wind wine wings woman women young Zharet