title: The Magical History of Unicorns (Gothic Dreams)
author: Russ Thorne
description: As a boy, Russ Thorne loved reading Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, playing Hero Quest and poring over issues of 'White Dwarf', admiring the cover art in the process. Later he studied English Literature and got to know Homer's heroes and a bit of Beowulf, before beginning a career as a writer and editor. Since then he's published books on tattoo art, body piercing and vampires and writes regularly for national newspapers including the Independent.
zlib_text: The Courts Of Chaos Chapter 13 For a moment, my aches and my fatigue fell
  away. I felt a tiny twinge of something like hope as I considered the dainty
  white form which stood before us. A part of me wanted to rush forward, but
  something much stronger kept me motionless, waiting. How long we stood thus, I
  could not tell. Below, on the slopes, the troops had been readying themselves
  for travel. The prisoners had been bound, horses loaded, equipment secured.
  But this vast army in the process of march, ordering its gear had suddenly
  halted. It was not natural that they should have become aware so quickly, but
  every head that I could see was turned in this direction, toward the Unicorn
  on the brink, limned against that wild sky. I was suddenly aware that the wind
  at my back had grown still, though the thunder continued to rumble and explode
  and the lightning flares threw dancing shadows before me. I thought of the
  other time I had seen the Unicorn-at the recovery of the Shadow-Caine's body,
  