title: Elminster in Hell (Forgotten Realms: The Elminster Series, Book 4)
author:  Ed Greenwood 
description: Ed Greenwood is the bestselling author of the Band of Four series and creator of the bestselling and award-winning Forgotten Realms role-playing campaign setting. He lives in the Ontario countryside.
zlib_text: Elminster in Myth Drannor
  Ed Greenwood
  Prologue
  It was a time of mounting strife in the fair realm of Cormanthor, when the lords and ladies
  of the oldest, proudest houses felt a threat to their glittering pride. A threat thrust forward by the
  very  throne  above  them;  a  threat  from  their  most  darkling  youthful  nightmares.  The  Stinking
  Beast  That  Comes  In  The  Night,  the  Hairy  Lurker  who  waits  his  best  chance  to  slay,  despoil,
  violate, and pillage. The monster whose grasp clutches at more realms with each passing day: the
  terror known as Man.
  Shalheira Talandren, High Elven Bard of Summerstar
  from Silver Blades And Summer Nights:
  An Informal But True History of Cormanthor
  published in The Year of the Harp
  "I did indeed promise the prince something in return for the crown," said the king, drawing himself
  up to his full height and  inhaling until his chest  trembled.  He  adjusted  the glittering circlet of gems and
  golden spires that adorned his brows a trifle s