title: The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
author: Heinrich Zimmer
description: "This handsome volume of essays . . . is the yield of what can be called an Indologist's holiday. . . . Expertly edited by Joseph Campbell, these essays rest upon Zimmer's belief--a belief which he shares with Jung and others--that the spiritual heritage of archaic man still survives in "the deeper unconscious layers of our soul.'" (<i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>)
zlib_text: ## SUNG IN BLOOD
  
  
  ### Glen Cook
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [23 feb 2002—scanned for #bookz]
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I
  
  
  Death stalked the night. It haunted the shadowed alleys of Shasesserre.
  
  
  Those it passed near hurried away, driven by the knives of fear.
  
  
  Death wore the guise of a squat, gnarly man in a vile yellow mask, the mask of
  a shantor, a
  
  
  carrier of the weeping sickness.
  
  
  Death was a liar, a wearer of false faces.
  
  
  The gnarly man zigzagged the darkest ways, hurrying toward the city's
  heart—the Plaza of
  
  
  Jehrke Victorious. Across his back he carried a rag-wrapped bundle. He reached
  the edge of the
  
  
  great square. Beyond, the Rock and its crown, Citadel Nibroc, reared their
  humped and spikey
  
  
  silhouettes against the stars.
  
  
  It was a rare and cloud-clear night there at the crossroads 'twixt land and
  sea.
  
  
  Between plaza's edge and Citadel stood a five-hundred-foot temporary needle of
  timbers, kept
  
  
  upright by scores of guylines. The masked man paused to see if he was
  observed, then ran to its
  
  
  foot. H