The Throne of Bones

International Horror Guild Award winner 1997, World Fantasy Award winner 1998, Bram Stoker Award nominee 1997.

“You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced Brian McNaughton to write. Make no mistake: I don’t exaggerate. There’s a reason this book won the World Fantasy Award. The stories inside it are rich, fascinating stuff — creepy and unsettling and phantasmic. Imagine what Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had tried to tell that story sympathetically from the point of view of the human denizens of Mordor and you’ll have the slightest sense of what you’re about to wade into — but only just a sense. These stories will make the same demands on you that they made on Brian: they will command and compel you, and fill you full of terrible wonder. And when you’ve finished them you’ll find yourself wanting more.”

— Alan Rodgers

Contents:

• Brian McNaughton and the Stories that Compelled Him: Rich, Phantasmic, Creepy as Sin by Alan Rogers
• Ringard and Dendra
• The Throne of Bones
• The Vendren Worm
• Meryphillia
• Reunion in Cephalune
• The Art of Tiphytsorn Glocque
• A Scholar from Sythiphore
• Vendriel and Vendreela
• The Retrograde Necromancer
• The Return of Liron Wolfbaiter
• Afterword by S. T. Joshi