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The throne of bones brian mcnaughton6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() shudder shudder toil and trouble/bodies burn and corpses bubble. adventuresses and noblemen and woodcarvers alike shall be drawn into plots and magic and long-games played by Fate and other unkindly forces. the young and the old alike live in the daydreams and nightmares of the dead, turned playthings. ![]() the living and the dead alike yearn for their one true perfect love, no matter the cost and no matter the body count. The collection first put out by Terminal Frights (now defunct), with tantalizing hints that there is. the sorcerer makes the dead alive again, he rapes and cavorts with his undead playthings. Throne of Bones could be considered McNaughtons opus. the human ghouls would do the same, their heavy-breathing necromantic fantasies leading them to cemetery and tomb, to play with corpses, to dance with them, to copulate in now-emptied coffins, atop the drying fluids and writhing maggots. "he inhuman ghouls skulk about the graveyard at night, waiting for the humans to depart, scrambling atop the graves and scrabbling for purchase, tearing the coffin asunder, ripping the rotting flesh from bone, slurping up the entrails and scooping out the brains, to relive the memories of tonight's tasty dish. It collects stories written over a period of several years: It is a series of stories linked by their taking place in the same necro-metropolis (an inhabited large city of the dead) where humans coexist with monsters including a large population of Ghouls. □ The Throne of Bones is an anthology by Brian McNaughton. ![]()
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