Dilvish, the Damned

Dilvish, the Damned
Dilvish, the Damned  
Dilvish.jpg
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author(s) Roger Zelazny
Illustrator Michael Herring
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy novel, short stories
Publisher Del Rey
Publication date 1982
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 215 pp
ISBN 0-345-30625-2
OCLC Number 9036859
Followed by The Changing Land

Dilvish, the Damned is a collection of fantasy stories by American writer Roger Zelazny, first published in 1982. Its contents were originally published as a series of separate short stories in various fantasy magazines. Prior to publication, Zelazny's working title for the book was Nine Black Doves.[1] The working title was later re-used for the fifth volume of The Collected Short Stories of Roger Zelazny collection, as a tribute to Dilvish.[2] The storyline begun in this collection was resolved in the novel The Changing Land, which was published before the other Dilvish stories appeared in book form.

Contents

Plot summary

Dilvish is the descendant of both elves and humans, a scion of a prominent Elven house and "the Human House that hath been stricken" which lost its peerage for mixing Elven and Human blood. Hundreds of years before the main story, he comes across a dark ritual being performed by the sorcerer Jelerak who is sacrificing a human girl. He attempts to stop the ritual but is turned into stone, with his soul banished to Hell. His body became a statue, and for many decades it resided within the square of a nearby town that he had formerly saved from enemy conquerors. When this town is again in need of a hero, their citizens' plight allows Dilvish the passage he needed to escape from Hell. He returns to the world of the living with his steed, the metal demon horse Black, and a burning desire for revenge against Jelerak, but must first repulse the assault against the endangered town. Dilvish then goes to call upon the Shoredan - a cursed people bound to his family. He searches for Jelerak in the Tower of Ice and finds the sorcerer's apprentice and his sister trapped there. The two of them believe him to be a servant of Jelerak sent to kill them.

Contents

The original short story sequence comprising Dilvish, the Damned was originally published as follows:

  • "Passage to Dilfar" (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Feb. 1965)
  • "Thelinde's Song" (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June 1965)
  • "The Bells of Shoredan" (Fantastic, Mar. 1966)
  • "A Knight for Merytha" (Eternity SF v. 1, no. 3, 1974)
  • "The Places of Aache" (Other Worlds 2, Jan. 1980)
  • "A City Divided" (first published in this collection, 1982)
  • "The White Beast" (Whispers 13-14, Oct. 1979)
  • "Tower of Ice" (Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers, Dec. 1981)
  • "Devil and the Dancer" (first published in this collection, 1982)
  • "Garden of Blood" (The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6, Nov. 1980)
  • "Dilvish, the Damned" (first published in this collection, 1982)

Awards

Dilvish, the Damned was a 1982 Locus nominee.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Carter, Lin. Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, New York, Ballantine Books, 1973, p. 154.
  2. ^ http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Zelazny-5.html

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