The Worm Ouroboros

<p>A novel of high fantasy and spellbinding imagination set on the (strangely earthlike) planet Mercury and peopled by Ghouls Goblins Imps Demons and Witches <em>The Worm Ouroboros</em> tells the epic tale of the conflict between Witchland and Demonland including an heroic quest to free Goldry Bluszco banished by sorcery to a remote mountain peak for the killing of Witch-King Gorice XI.  </p><p>Written in sweeping heroic saga-like prose and shot through with stirring poetry Ouroboros greatly influenced the work of both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis predating <em>Lord of the Rings</em> and <em>Chronicles of Narnia</em> by some 30 years.  Tolkien was especially impressed by the book declaring its author to be “The greatest and most convincing writer of invented worlds that I have read."</p><p> </p>