The Book of the Damned (Secret Books of Paradys)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780879514082 (0879514086)
ASIN: 0879514086
Publish date: 1990-12-03
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Very strange stories. Definitely not the first Tanith Lee you should read. It's her style, of course, but personified and boiled down to make beautiful words but sometimes completely incomprehensible visions. I think I will take a break before beginning the next book.The middle story, Malice in Saff...
The first story is my favorite among the three.
This book is actually three novellas: that of a poet who may or may not tangle him or herself up with vampire(s), that of an abused peasant girl who runs away to Paradys and becomes nun by day, bullyboy by night, and a writer who investigates the strange deaths of two beauties in a single house. I...