The City of the Singing Flame

The best in Fantasy and Horror by one of the Twentieth Century's greats!

The City of the Singing Flame: A writer is translated into another world – a world of strange creatures, marvelous architecture, bewitching music...and irresistable doom!

The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles: Two thieves in the employ of a sorcerer steal the jewel-encrusted chastity girdles of the thirty-nine beautiful virgins of the moon god Leniqua...

The Dark Eidolon: Zothique, the last continent of Earth - where the sun no longer shines, and the ancient gods with their primordial sorceries have again returned to man...

The Garden of Adompha: Adompha, king of the wide orient isle of Star, and the court magician hold a garden secret – a mystery they share with no other...

The Hunters from Beyond: A San Francisco sculptor takes his craft beyond the limits of art – and into the unholy realm of the diabolical...

Contents:

• Introduction
• The City of the Singing Flame
• Hyperborea
  • The White Sybil
  • The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
  • The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles
  • The Door to Saturn
• Zothique
  • The Dark Eidolon
  • The Black Abbot of Puthuum
  • The Garden of Adompha
• Xiccarph
  • The Maze of Maal Dweb
  • The Flower-Women
• Averoigne & Elsewhere
  • The Enchantress of Sylaire
  • The Beast of Averoigne
  • The Hunters from Beyond