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Night after night, Gil found herself dreaming of an impossible city where alien horrors warmed from underground lairs of darkness to destroy mankind and all the works of men. But when the wizard Ingold Inglorion crossed the Void to ask sanctuary for the last Prince of Dar, he learned her dreams had been true visions of a strange reality. On Ingold's world, the monstrous Dark had been mere legends for 3,000 years, But now, for unknown reasons, they were ravening savagely across the land, and there was no escape from their fowl powers and insatiable hungers. Attempting to help Ingold, Gil and Rudy, a young drifter, were drawn into the nightmare world of the Dark. There they had to remain-unless they could solve the mystery of the Dark. Then, before they could realize their fate, the Dark struck!
A young woman discovers that her recurring nightmares of an alien, subterranean threat are actually visions of a dying world that requires her intervention. Gil, a modern-day protagonist, finds her reality fractured when the wizard Ingold Inglorion arrives seeking refuge for a displaced prince. Alongside a drifter named Rudy, she is pulled across the Void into a landscape where ancient, monstrous legends have manifested into a physical, ravenous reality. The narrative follows their struggle to survive and comprehend the mechanics of this encroaching darkness while navigating the unfamiliar laws of a world on the brink of total annihilation.
This work is characterized by its shift away from traditional heroic tropes toward a grittier, more desperate tone of survival. The narrative structure suggests a focus on the psychological toll of witnessing a world's collapse, emphasizing the helplessness of the protagonists against an ancient, implacable force. Readers often note the stark contrast between the mundane origins of the characters and the high-stakes, alien nature of the threat they face. The genre conventions point to a series that prioritizes atmosphere and the slow unraveling of a mystery over simple conquest.
Page Count:
294
Publication Date:
1982-01-01
Publisher:
Harper Collins
ISBN-10:
0006480063
ISBN-13:
9780006480068
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