The Darkling
- ISBN-10
- 0870540904
- ISBN-13
- 9780870540905
- Category
- Adventure stories
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House
- Author
- David Kesterton
Description
In a world convulsed by seasons of terror and by nightmarish phantoms, Maradek abandons the security of his small northern tribal home to search for his father, Afurad. Armed only with a bow and guided by a psychic aptitude for scanning life forms, Maradek is joined by a hermit plainsmanand by a strange bestial anomaly who can communicate solely through telepathic subspeech. Directed by primitive divination abilities, Maradek and his colleagues journey southward through death-haunted realms of cosmic alienage until they discover and challenge the unnatural agents who are threatening to consume their world.
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