From World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee comes a new volume of Tales from the Flat Earth.

Les sortilèges de la nuit (Le dit de la terre plate, #5)

The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that world's only genetic misfit, the shunned outcast of an otherwise ideal society, she became the focus of attention for mighty forces. Once they had installed her in the midst of the Electric Forest, with its weird trees and its super-luxurious private home, Magdala awoke to the potentials which were opening up all about her. And to realize also the peril that now seemed poised above Indigo . . . which only she, the hated one, could possible circumvent.

La forêt électrique

Hesta Web, with her hot red hair and her tough, guarded coldness, is trapped with a mother who hates her and a father who is mostly away earning money on an oil rig. When Hesta discovers that her mother and her mother's lover have had rampant sex in Hesta's bed, she absconds with her friend Janey to the seaside.
It is the last day of the season, sun bright and sea sparkling. The bars and shops are open, the funfair spins round with shrieks and shouts. As night falls, the illuminations go on. But when Janey catches the last train to London, Hesta stays behind. She falls in with the gothic-looking, unpleasantly attractive Skilt and his subject colony of junkies and beggars. In a rotting hotel on the front, among the broken marble balustrades, the mouse-eaten rooms and the bonfire in the ballroom, Hesta takes up her new life. She hears drugged legends told beside the fire, the rumours of ghosts and the strangeness of the sea.
For now the season has ended, the seaside is deserted, the illuminations are switched off, this place is very strange. Does Skilt know its secret? Should Hesta be wary of the blond man who watches her from the pier? And what happens when the lights go out?
It's dark.

When the Lights Go Out

A haunting tale of strange shadows and weird evils which features three travellers, Parl Dro, Myal Lemayal and Ciddey Soban, who are drawn together on a quest for Ghyste Mortua, city of the dead.

Tuer les morts

La danse des ombres

He came to the Honey Garden looking for Cyrion. He was a man in grave danger, convinced only one man alive could help him. A man he had heard about in song and story. A man practically everyone knew something about. A man he had never met.CYRIONSome said he was the stolen son of a western king, raised by nomads in the desert. A freelance swordsman, a sorcerer, a master of disguise, some said he attracted bizarre, uncanny events as some persons attract misfortune.He with hair like the sky of earnest sunrise, his fair complexion, his whiplash reactions and quicksilver elegance was like a being from another world. A legend. A myth.But was he real?And was he for hire?

Cyrion

Night is falling, and shadows are gathering in crowds across the city, bronze and sable, flickering, or still as stone. There is always an audience here, for anything - human, beast or object - that comes close to tell its story, or betray its deadly secret... What now? Heartless unkindness - lust for riches - suppressed hatred and rage honed to a razor-? Or some epic sorrow passed into a silver scream. Above everything, the drifting and unavoidable webs of the spinning City gods. So, will you listen in the shadows, or become yourself a story-teller in the bronze half-light?Or do you have another mission here, in Marcheval?A new triumphant trio of dark fantasy stories, in the vein of Tanith Lee's previous imaginary city novels of Paradys and Venus.

A Different City

Tome 2 :- La Maîtresse des Délires (nomination au Mythopoeic Award 1987)- Les Sortilèges de la Nuit (nomination aux World Fantasy Award & Locus Award 1988) Tome 2À l'époque où la Terre était toujours plate, où les démons venaient hanter les rêves et l'existence des hommes, naquit de l'union d'une beauté mortelle et d'Ajrarn, le Seigneur des Ténèbres, une fille qui fut nommée Ajriaz. On la cacha sur une île entourée d'une brume magique pour qu'elle passe sa vie à rêver, mais sa beauté et sa puissance attirèrent bientôt l'attention d'un autre puissant seigneur-démon, ennemi intime d'Ajrarn : le prince Chuz, le Maître des Illusions, qui œuvra alors pour la libérer de sa prison et la métamorphoser en Maîtresse des Délires.Ainsi serait-elle connue dans les royaumes humains et démoniaques, et sa destinée en ferait successivement une déesse, une reine, une guerrière, une sage, devant laquelle même le Seigneur des Ténèbres finirait par s'incliner...s high as the moon and the sun.

Les sortilèges de la nuit (Le dit de la terre plate, #5)

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