A DEMON'S WRATH AND A SORCEROUS JEWEL His soul was doomed to fall into the clutches of the Lord of Demons. Trapped between two rival arch-wizards and two feuding sword-women, sorcerer's apprentice Albaric Corwen must undertake a desperate expedition to the lethal, long-abandoned corpse-city of Snerankhu. There, in the demon-haunted ruins of the fallen empire of the dark goddess Night, Albaric hopes to locate the greatest prize of sorcery: the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Without it, he is damned. But to find it, he must plunge into the black center of a living hell on earth, and steal the...

A DEADLY VOYAGE TO THE FROZEN EDGE OF THE WORLD Albaric, Tierny, Rutha and Basil must embark on an epic odyssey to retrieve the mysterious jewel named Hydra, which might hold the key to Albaric's salvation. Far across the sea, in the frozen wasteland of Thysia, stands the time-trapped tower of the mysterious wizard Sesuar. There, lost somewhere in the tower's cosmic depths waits the Hydra, with its dark and terrible link with the demon-prince Urzoth, who holds Albaric's fate in his grasp Untold perils lurk along the way. Urzoth has despatched a deadly ocean-demon to sink Albaric's ship, and...

AN IMMORTAL MADMAN GUARDS A WORLD-SHATTERING SECRET Stripped of his staff and the companionship of Tierny and Rutha, Albaric Corwen must undertake a dangerous journey to the sinister mountain of Ghavier. There he must learn a vital lesson from Khareth the madman, whose food is too terrible to name. The mad hermit reveals the terrible beginning of the world Albaric has always taken for granted - and the forbidden secret origin of the Starborn race. Puzzled and doubting, Albaric shares the secret with Tierny - with catastrophic results. Tierny flees from the horror of the revelation. From...

A WORLD IN FLAMES . . . The cosmic balance between Light and Night has somehow been upset, causing a sudden, inexplicable escalation of old hatreds between humans and Starborns - bringing the two races into brutal, bloody conflict that can only end in complete annihilation. When Albaric's son is murdered, he turns to the forbidden rites of necromancy to reanimate the boy. The attempt creates an al'ghirol, an alien spirit incarnated in the living-dead body of the wizard's son. The monster is eerily knowledgeable about Albaric's past - and his future. Horrified, Tierny casts out her husband....

ADRIFT IN A HELLISH SEA OF SOULS . . . When a magical experiment goes disastrously wrong, it precipitates the final confrontation between Albaric Corwen and Urzoth, Lord of Demons. Before the final battle, Albaric must undertake an infernal odyssey across the terrible landscape of Sargothrond, black island of eternal terror in the sea of souls. There the spawn of the dark goddess Night inflict unending torments on the damned. Fighting demons of terrible beauty and danger, unexpectedly meeting an old love and discovering the ironies of true damnation, Albaric ultimately finds himself embroiled...

THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT contains nine new tales from the world of the Wizard of Earth's End, featuring further adventures of Albaric and Tierny, Cranley and Nefedius, and Melvale of Ethior. You'll meet: The obsessed alchemist whose dead love he must resurrect - at any cost. The sly demon who makes life hell for an unwitting sorcerer's apprentice when he seeks his freedom. The invincible champion who learns the price of fear. The lethal snow-white city where bloody footprints walk by themselves, placed by no living feet. The heavenly dancer transformed into a hungry horror from hell. The lost,...

A WARRIOR-WOMAN'S DARK PAST . . . Born to luxury and idleness, Seralya Torrell is torn from her safe and comfortable life by a horrific family betrayal. Enslaved in a harem and framed for the murder of her lover, Seralya fights her way to freedom - only to find herself lost in the vicious streets of the criminal quarter, where Seralya has a temptingly high price on her head. Seralya survives these dangers by reinventing herself as a streetwise, glamorous thief and warrior, whose motto, "Never start a fight, but always finish it," becomes a byword of terror to the skulking predators of her...

APPARITIONS AND OTHER DARK DOINGS features two new novellas about Albaric Corwen, Tierny, and Rutha Khan; plus a complete word chapter deleted from QUEST FOR THE HYDRA, presented as a stand-alone story; and a new novella in Melvale's saga. In APPARITIONS, Albaric and Tierny must somehow defeat a hideously personal haunting when the tortured ghosts of Rutha's past arise to wreak their horrifying vengeance on her - and on all who love her. On a treasure hunt, Tierny learns the bitter ramifications of trust and treachery, and love and lechery, when she seeks THE CAVE OF MICTLANTELATHRI. Filled...

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THING, OR, FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE PHOTON TORPEDOES: (NEWLY REVISED AND SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED FROM THE SOLD-OUT SCARLET SUCCUBUS PRESS LIMITED EDITION ) "The ultimate space opera spoof " - Locus on Fantasy What is the mysterious Fellowship of the Thing? It's the wildest mash-up you'll ever read. Ever wonder what might happen if Conan the Cimmerian and James Bond were forced to share a mission? Bring together an obstinate organist, a cynical spy, a worried wizard, telepathic twins, an inquisitive anthropoid, an alluring actress and a bean-eating barbarian. Weld...

LOST IN THE SHADOWS WHERE LUST MINGLES WITH LUNACY . . . Ancient legends whisper of the demonic strigoi, a Bloodthirsty creature that once plagued the earth. For centuries, the last of the strigoi race was confined to a hellish limbo - until master occultist Aleister Crowley called her forth to stalk the living once more. On the eve of her greatest triumph, the strigoi was banished again to the dark hell of the Void, taking her enslaved priest-magician with her. Decades later, neurotic actor Miles Mackenzie finds the spell to summon the strigoi. He only wanted an authentic-sounding...