The whole city seemed to shake at their onslaught. The air was ripped by their great, roaring shouts, polluted by the stink of their incendiary bombs launched from catapults, and by the odor of their very bodies. Flame licked here, crackled there—and the women and children of Varnal struggled val...
His face worked in a peculiar contortion. He took half a step backwards and then, before we could stop him, flung himself into the darkened chamber, straight at the corpse-white creatures! They gibbered and fell back for a moment, a terrible twittering noise, like that o...
The Central Place also showed signs of having been erected only recently, and I marvelled at how speedily it must have been built and at what cost - since it must have been created primarily by human labour. The Central Place had been built by the blood of men -man subjected to a tyr...