Messengers of Darkness Magira III by Hugh Walker

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1979. DAW.

Translated to English by Christine Preist

"Do you not want power?" The Powers of Darkness are not something one can call up at will -they have their price. I came here because nowhere else in all the continents of the world are the life-forces of the ancient gods still so strong and Darkness so deeply rooted...

"This country has never been free of Darkness. It is within the hearts of men. There was a time when the whole of Ysh was one great temple of Darkness - not a glorious empire as your dreams of the past would have it, but a pestilence on the face of the world, an empire of slaves...

"This time however it will be different!"

And so the battle was joined, the conflict for the heart of Magira, that world outside of time and space created by the Lords of the Lands of Wonder but now reaching out to encompass its very creators.

Book #3 in the Darkness series by Austrian sci-fi writer Hugh Walker.