Manna from Heaven is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Roger Zelazny. It was published in 2003 by Zelazny's estate eight years after Zelazny's death. Contents Manna from Heaven contains 22 stories. The first 16 are stand-alone stories, while the last six tie into Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series. "Godson" "Mana from Heaven" "Corrida" "Prince of the Powers of This World" "The Furies" "The Deadliest Game" "Kalifriki of the Thread" "Come Back to the Killing Ground Alice, My Love" "Lady of Steel" "Come to Me Not in Winter's White" (written with Harlan Ellison) "The New Pleasure" "The House of the Hanged Man" "Epithalamium" "The Last Inn on the Road" "Stowaway" "Angel, Dark Angel" "Prologue from the Trumps of Doom" Merlin walks the Logrus, wearing his strangling cord Frakir. "The Salesman's Tale" Luke flees the Pattern – having just spilled on it, not his own blood (which he apparently was in a position to do) but a harmless cup of tea, and bought himself a split second to trick even the Pattern that way – and takes refuge in the Crystal Cave. He and Vialle learn that the redistribution of the spikards will force a confrontation involving Amber and the Courts of Chaos. "Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains" Corwin flees the Courts of Chaos through a part of Shadow called the Dancing Mountains, having been given a new steed – a sentient shapechanger named Shask – as a gift by his son Merlin. He eavesdrops on a game of chess between Dworkin and Suhuy, and learns he has an appointment at the Hall of Mirrors in Amber Castle. "The Shroudling and the Guisel" Merlin's childhood sweetheart Rhanda appears. She warns him of an unknown sorcerer who seeks the throne of the Courts of Chaos and has sent a beast called a guisel to kill him. He succeeds in destroying it with the help of the Vorpal Blade, and sends another one back to pursue the mystery sorcerer. "Coming to a Cord" Frakir escapes from Brand's bedpost where Merlin left her, locates Flora, and eventually asks Luke's help in returning to Merlin. A conversation with Flora is interrupted by a mystery sorcerer who enters and exits through mirrors, pursued by a weird beast called a guisel. Luke uses the power of Werewindle – revealed to be a transformed spikard, like Merlin's ring (and also Corwin's sword Grayswandir) – to destroy