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The Throne of Bones

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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. The Throne of Bones is a World Fantasy Award-winning anthology by Brian McNaughton, first published in 1997 by Terminal Fright Publications.

Overview[]

It is a series of stories linked by their taking place in the same necro-metropolis (an inhabited large city of the dead) where humans coexist with monsters including a large population of Ghouls.

“ The inhuman ghouls skulk about the graveyard at night, waiting for the humans to depart, scrambling atop the graves and scrabbling for purchase, tearing the coffin asunder, ripping the rotting flesh from bone, slurping up the entrails and scooping out the brains, to relive the memories of tonight's tasty dish. the human ghouls would do the same, their heavy-breathing necromantic fantasies leading them to cemetery and tomb, to play with corpses, to dance with them, to copulate in now-emptied coffins, atop the drying fluids and writhing maggots. the sorcerer makes the dead alive again, he rapes and cavorts with his undead playthings. the living and the dead alike yearn for their one true perfect love, no matter the cost and no matter the body count. the young and the old alike live in the daydreams and nightmares of the dead, turned playthings. adventuresses and noblemen and woodcarvers alike shall be drawn into plots and magic and long-games played by Fate and other unkindly forces. shudder shudder toil and trouble/bodies burn and corpses bubble. „
~ Publisher's description



Contents:[]

  • "Ringard and Dendra" (1996)
  • "The Throne of Bones" (1997)
  • "The Vendren Worm" (1990)
  • "Meryphillia" (1990)
  • "Reunion in Cephalune" (1997)
  • "The Art of Tiphytsorn Glocque" (1997)
  • "A Scholar from Sythiphore" (1995)
  • "Vendriel and Vendreela" (1988)
  • "The Retrograde Necromancer" (1993)
  • "The Return of Liron Wolfbaiter" (1997)

Publication History[]

First published in paperback by Terminal Fright Publishing in 1997, a hardcover version was released in April the following year. In October 2000, Wildside Press released a paperback edition with a recoloured cover; this version was reissued in hardcover in April 2021.

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