"Karl Edward Wagner - Kane 05 - Night Winds" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wagner Karl Edward)

RAVEN'S EYRIE
Prologue
I. Ridges of Autumn
II. A Guest Returns
III. Ravens Fly by Night
IV. Hounds and Carrion Crows
V. To Chase the Dead
VI. In Seven Years You'll Hear a Bell
VII. Raven's Secret
VIII. And That Will Be Your Call to Hell...
IX. Broken Barricades
X. Demonlord's Moon


LYNORTIS REPRISE
I. Hunters in the Forest
II. The Key
III. As Night Closes
IV. The Hand of Kane
V. Hunters in the Night
VI. In the Temple of Peace
VII. Echoes
VIII. The Bringer of Peace


SING A LAST SONG OF VALDESE
I. The Girl Beneath the Oak
II. The Inn by the Side of the Road
III. "Do You Know the Song of Valdese?"




UNDERTOW

Prologue


"She was brought in not long past dark," wheezed the custodian, scuttling
crab-like along the rows of silent, shrouded slabs. "The city guard found her,
carried her in. Sounds like the one you're asking about."
He paused beside one of the waist-high stone tables and lifted its filthy
sheet. A girl's contorted face turned sightlessly upward--painted and rouged,
a ghastly strumpet's mask against the pallor of her skin. Clots of congealed
blood hung like a necklace of dark rubies along the gash across her throat.
The cloaked man shook his head curtly within the shadow of his hood, and the
moon-faced custodian let the sheet drop back.
"Not the one I was thinking of," he murmured apologetically. "It gets
confusing sometimes, you know, what with so many, and them coming and going