The Champion of Night and Other Fantasies — John Salonia

THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT contains nine new tales from the world of the Wizard of Earth's End, featuring further adventures of Albaric and Tierny, Cranley and Nefedius, and Melvale of Ethior. You'll meet: The obsessed alchemist whose dead love he must resurrect - at any cost. The sly demon who makes life hell for an unwitting sorcerer's apprentice when he seeks his freedom. The invincible champion who learns the price of fear. The lethal snow-white city where bloody footprints walk by themselves, placed by no living feet. The heavenly dancer transformed into a hungry horror from hell. The lost, eerie village where the living are damned worse than the dead. The musician whose haunting dreams are draining away his life, and the horrors his loving wife must face if she hopes to save him from her inhuman rival. The evil Sign of Yhela, the mere sight of which brings nightmares, madness, and death - and worse. The volcanic island whose population is always glad to find shipwrecked castaways - because their god is getting hungry . . . AND MORE! The 8-volume WIZARD OF EARTH'S END series: THE STAFF AND THE STONE QUEST FOR THE HYDRA MADMAN OF GHAVIER THE HOUNDS OF CHAOS THE SHORES OF SARGOTHROND THE SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT APPARITIONS AND OTHER DARK DOINGS