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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... stared, for she was the Queen of Sheve and she had come in without attendants from the streets; but they did not question her. She went to her apartments and sat down there. Her head ached, her very mind ached. Nemdur would come to her.
... another a bundle. “Set him down,” said the king, “and let this poor madwoman behold the fruit of her planting.” So they placed the bundle before the Queen of Sheve and unwrapped it in the torchlight. For a while she stared,
Tanith Lee. unwrapped it in the torchlight. For a while she stared, and then she screamed, and the two parts of her brain shattered in a hundred fragments. The people of the tents had known the infant by his gold anklet, and out of ...
... stared down. No one was there. But now, when Nemdur ate a roast fowl, he brooded over the bones. Strange things happened in Sheve about this time. Lamps would come alight and burn with no oil in them; butchers told of severed heads ...
... stared, his eyes fixed, his mouth wide. In answer, the eyes of Chuz stared back and his lips parted. Quietly, Chuz retrieved the jawbones from Nemdur's grasp, and then he drew off the white leather glove from his right hand. The right ...
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 | |