Death's Master

10 best books like Death's Master (Tanith Lee): Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Nifft the Lean, Madouc, The Sword of the Lictor, Swords Against Wizardry, A Storm of Wings, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Influence, Dusk, The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran / An Earthly Crown / His Conquering Sword / The Law of Becoming

AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0671654268
Poul Anderson has long been known for his love affair with the legends and myths of the great Norse heroes. Coordinating, translating, re-telling the scattered heroic literature could only be the work of a scholar and a lover of the genre. That Mr. Anderson also happens to be a talented writer is our great...
AuthorMichael Shea
ISBN0879977833
Come then, Mortal. We Will Seek Her Soul:
At the behest of an apparition, Nifft and Haldar kidnap a disgraced warrior and take him to the land of the dead to be reunited with her in exchange for the Wizard's Key. Only things don't go as planned...

The first Nifft story was quite good, a trip to...
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0441505325
The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, King Casmir arranges a contest to marry her off,...
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671631934
This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0441791948
More of Leiber's finely-crafted tales of adventure featuring barbarian Fafhrd (whose bluff exterior hides one frequently given to flights of fancy or romance) and thief Mouser (who would describe himself, not altogether with cause, as the more practical of the pair).

In this case, we have...
AuthorM. John Harrison
ISBN0722144423
IN THE WASTELANDS OF A FUTURE WORLD, THE PASTEL CITY STRUGGLES IN THE GRIP OF THE SIGN OF THE LOCUST...

Viriconium: The Pastel City was the last bastion of the civilized world where Queen Methvet Nian ruled supreme. Now she watched, helpless, as the Time of the Locust became a monstrous reality,...
AuthorStorm Constantine
ISBN0812505565
I finish this book 24h ago, but just now gather my forces and can write a few words about it. Don't be worried, it don't have any spoiler about this book or the previous (The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit)

The first book is about a human, Pellaz, learning what are Wraeththu. It's a future, an apocalyptic...
AuthorRamsey Campbell
ISBN0812516389
Sometimes evil refuses to die.

Rowan's great-aunt Queenie is dead. After all the misery she caused her family while she was alive, most of them are secretly relieved. But Queenie did not want to die, and she will do anything to live again…including possessing young Rowan. She haunts the child's...
AuthorTim Lebbon
ISBN0553588419
Kosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a madman plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for a reason he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction.

Uncertain where to begin, Kosar turns to...
AuthorKate Elliott
A special four-in-one edition of Kate Elliott’s sweeping and addictive Jaran series


In Jaran, the Earth of the future is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her...
The Shattered World
AuthorMichael Reaves
ISBN0671499424
One of my favorite books and, after rereading it for the first time in something over a decade, I'm happy to find that it still holds up.

A thousand years ago, the world was broken in a great cataclysm; now people live on the fragments, flying between them in ships made of the skin & bone of dragons....
AuthorElizabeth A. Lynn
ISBN0441006876
Watchtower was the first in a breathtaking fantasy trilogy...now the Chronicles Of Tornor continues. Kerris has spent seventeen years training his mind as scholar and scribe of Tornor. His brother Kel is one of the chearis - the dancing warriors of Arun - who teaches him the beauty of patterning. This...
Rituals
AuthorRoz Kaveney
ISBN0984436278
Two women - and the workings of Time and Fate.

In a time too long ago for most human memory, a god asked Mara what she most wanted. She got her wish: to protect the weak against the strong. For millennia, she has avenged that god, and her dead sisters, against anyone who uses the Rituals of Blood to...
AuthorGraham Joyce
ISBN0765355418
SACRED MYSTERIES

Following the death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. But the haunted city, divided by warring religious groups, offers him no refuge from guilt and grief.

As he wanders through the streets and the archaeological...
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0425093913
THE LAST BATTLE

Enemies become allies and allies enemies as the races struggle for possession of the Earth. Yet only Prince Corum of the Scarlet Robe can save them from a doomed fate. With the spear of Llaw Ereint in his silver hand, Corum must face the Cold Gods in a final battle that will defeat...
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