Young gods sleeping by a river dream a marble city into being, and their servant Time, the only one of them without age, sets about destroying it. Dunsany’s second book after The Gods of Pegāna collects short invented legends of Yarnith, Averon and Zarkandhu: the coming of the sea, the cave of Kai, kings who never were, and men who defy heaven.
Jewelled, biblical prose fantasy of the kind Lovecraft adored, and a founding text of modern secondary-world myth. Download the free EPUB.