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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... voice remained quiet; she could not see his face in the dark. “And has the child been returned to you?” muttered Jasrin. “Returned,” said Nemdur, and then he shouted across the chamber: “Bring in my son.” The doors opened again, and ...
... voice began to speak to her. It was the voice of Chuz, one of his voices, for he had many. “Jasrin of Sheve is my subject, therefore let her approach me and be comforted.” And Jasrin discovered she was creeping to the stranger, and when ...
... voices, high and coarse. “These were the words your brain would speak.” “But in my heart I love Nemdur still.” “And in your brain you hate him.” “Again,” she said, “it is true. And will you send him mad?” “His madness shall become a ...
... voice at Nemdur's ear, “that at that era, no longer was Death's Master the title of the Lord Uhlume, who is the Master of the dead, but that Simmu bore the title Death's Master, seeing he had mastered Death—” When Nemdur's dark wife ...
... 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. And when ...
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 | |