"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The world that McNaughton has created in this book is the world of the ghoul and who knows but that The Throne of Bones will become the standard textbook for the care and feeding of ghouls just as Dracula has become that for vampires?" Archimage asked began believed body bones Brian McNaughton called Chalcedor childcatcher claws cloak Cludd Cluddites corpse creature cried Crondard Crotalorn dark dead Dendra Dolton door. "McNaughton seems to have mastered one of the most difficult of literary arts: to draw upon the classics of the field without losing his own voice. Howard, and Greco-Roman decadent works such as Petronius's Satyricon. Joshi, in the afterword to this collection of stories, notes the strong influence of Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, H. You've got just a hint of the wondrous and original visions in the dark fantasy world of Brian McNaughton. Then throw in star-crossed lovers, crazed zealots, stalwart heroes, bloodthirsty renegade armies, hideous monsters, and likeable misfits. Imagine mephitic gardens where the sarcophage, selenotrope, and necrophilium bloom. Imagine earthy Tolkienesque characters in a setting full of cemeteries, graverobbers, necromancers, corpse-eaters-even a huge labyrinthine necropolis.
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