The Throne of Bones

Winner of the World Fantasy Award here is Brian McNaughtons masterpiece-The Throne of Bones.You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced Brian McNaughton to write. Make no mistake: I dont exaggerate. Theres a reason this book won the World Fantasy Award. The stories inside it are rich fascinating stuff--creepy and unsettling and phantasmic. Imagine what Tolkiens Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had tried to tell that story sympathetically from the point of view of the human denizens of Mordor and youll have the slightest sense of what youre about to wade into--but only just a sense. These stories will make the same demands on you that they made on Brian: they will command and compel you and fill you full of terrible wonder. And when youve finished them youll find yourself wanting more. --Alan Rodgers