Erikson, Steven - The Lees of Laughter's End (2009 HB)

The Lees of Laughter's End

Night Shade Books, 2009

120 pages

Cover art by Ian Kirkpatrick

Cover design by Claudia Noble

 

From the dust jacket:

 

West of Theft, on a vast stretch of ocean known as the Wastes, the freeship Suncurl pilots its way along the Less of Laughter's End, away from the city of Lamentable Moll. Aboard the ship, three passengers have become the subject of the crew's gossip: the luckless manservant Emancipor Reese, and his masters, the homicidal necromancers known as Bauchelain and Korbal Broach...

 

But a bizarre force pursues them along the cursed sea-lane known as Laughter's End, even as an arcane thing awakens aboard the Suncurl. What secrets do the captain and her first mate conceal from the rest of the crew? What lurks in the darkness of the ship's hold? And what of the eunuch's strange behavior... or his frightening offspring?

 

Continuing the storyline of Bauchelain, Korbal Broach, Erikson delivers a rousing, gritty, black-humor-filled adventure that is reminiscent of Fritz Leiber's best Lankhmar fiction.

 

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