The Empress of Dreams by Tanith Lee
“Tanith Lee: Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy” –Village Voice
“Tanith Lee truly has become the Scheherazade of our time.” –Arkham House
“From the day that her novel The Birthgrave was first published Tanith Lee has been a blazing gem in the crown of fantasy literature… ‘Princess Royal’… perhaps better the Empress of Dreams.” –Donald A. Wollheim
Throughout her forty-year career, Tanith Lee proved herself adept at numerous genres, including high fantasy, horror, science fiction, and combinations thereof. One of her specialties was the variety of heroic fantasy known as sword-and-sorcery. Novels such as The Birthgrave, Night’s Master, and The Storm Lord are highly regarded by both fans and critics, but she has a wealth of short stories to her credit as well. Sixteen of Tanith’s tales of swords and sorcery appear in this collection. When you read them, you will discover why she deserves such exalted titles as “Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy” and The Empress of Dreams.
Release date: February 2021
Trade Paperback: 9” x 6”, 286 pages, $19.99
Digital: $4.99
Stories included:
“Odds Against the Gods”
“Sleeping Tiger”
“The Demoness”
“The Sombrus Tower”
“Winter White”
“In the Balance”
“Northern Chess”
“Southern Lights”
“Mirage and Magia”
“The Three Brides of Hamid-Dar”
“The Pain of Glass”
“These Beasts”
“Two Lions, a Witch, and the War-Robe”
“A Tower of Arkrondurl”
“The Woman in Scarlet”
“Evillo the Uncunning”
Reviews:
”This is an incredible collection. It will probably be the most important reprint fantasy collection of 2021… Nobody in the past fifty years did what Tanith Lee did with such style and delivery.” (Morgan Holmes, Castalia House)
“While all these stories fit within the realms of sword and sorcery, they are happy to stretch and broaden that genre… Lee writes sword and sorcery as gothic fable: the mood is mysterious and macabre with the logic of the world serving the motif of the story… this anthology’s appeal is not restricted to those of an S&S persuasion, but has much to offer any fan of fantasy and gothic horror.” (George Jacobs, Spiral Tower Press)
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