Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy.Contents:"Introduction" (Lin Carter) Hyperborea "The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem) "The Seven Geases" "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" "The White Sybil" "The Testament of Athammaus" "The Coming of the White Worm" "Ubbo-Sathla" "The Door to Saturn" "The Ice-D...
The night was almost sultry; and the air was steeped with a distilled languor of voluptuous perfume. Even if he had been in some other garden, in another city, Selim could not have breathed that perfume without thinking of Zoraida, the young wife of Abdur Ali. Evening after evening, for the past ...
Severn had been brought to the hospital by the Martian guides of the Expedition. He was suffering from a horribly lacerated and inflamed condition of the scalp and brow, and was wildly delirious part of the time and had to be held down in his bed during recurrent seizures of a mania whose violenc...
Several oases, according to the report, had been entirely blotted out, and a number of caravans had been lost in the sweep of the tremendous storm, which had towered to a height of twelve thousand feet and had covered many hundred square miles. No one caught in it had come out alive nor had any t...
Or so John King had told himself, during those years of study. But now, with war threatening to overwhelm the world, King was through with theory. He was going back into time—or space—or both, if his equations did not lie. And he was going to stop war at its origin.He took off his acid-stained sm...
—The Song of Xeethra On Zothique, the last continent of Earth, the sun no longer shone with the whiteness of its prime, but was dim and tarnished as if with a vapor of blood. New stars without number had declared themselves in the heavens, and the shadows of the infinite had fallen closer. And ou...