E. R. Eddison

* #3 in the Millennium Fantasy Masterworks series, a library of the most original and influential fantasy ever written

* 'It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him the sense of having opened a door on wonder. Eddison's heroic romances are works, first and foremost, of art' C.S. Lewis

* 'A masterpiece of hedonism . . . can still shock an audience' The Encyclopedia of Fantasy