DELUSION'S MASTER (Special Edition)When the world was flat and the gods had not yet restructured the universe, the cities and hopes of mankind hung upon the whims of the immortal lords of all diabolical powers. For these, such as Azhrarn, Night's Master, and Uhlumc, Death's Master, the world was a flesh-and-blood playground for all their strangest desires. Hut among those demonic lords, the strangest was the master of madness, Chuz. The game that Chuz played with a beautiful woman, with an ambitious king, with an ancient imperial city, was a web work of good and evil, of hope and horror. But there was always Azhrarn to interfere—to bend delusion to a different outcome—and it was a century-long conflict between two vain immortals with women and men as their terrified pawns. TANITH LEE, acclaimed as the "princess-royal of high fantasy," winner of the prestigious August Derleth Award, now presents a new novel of brilliant coloration and sparkling imagination. |
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... blue black figs sweated and the red meat swung and boys danced to a pipe and a snake rose from a copper urn and spread his heart shaped hood. So Jasrin came to the tall enameled walls of Sheve. She did not see the pictures there of ...
... leather glove from his right hand. The right hand of Chuz was constructed of brass, but the four fingers of it were four brazen serpents that snapped and hissed. The thumb was a fly of dark blue stone, which, released from the glove, ...
Tanith Lee. of dark blue stone, which, released from the glove, slowly spread its wings of azure wire and clicked its mandibles together noisily. Nemdur fell back with a cry and covered his face. When he looked again, he was alone ...
... horizon. But ascending higher, the horizon extended itself to contain the city. Blue rimmed the sand, as if the sky had stained its edges. And now the air was more immediate than the earth. How high now, on the mountain of the.
... blue pastures, horse dung about the harp string palaces. Was such an event even likely? It is debatable. Few traveled to Upperearth, and they by curious methods. Once Azhram, Prince of Demons, had come there, or would come there, in a ...
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 | |
Dice | |
Love and Death and Time | |