Shadowfire

Previously published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor, Shadowfire is the sequel to Tanith Lee’s legendary debut, The Birthgrave!

“A good deal more powerful, emotionally and dramatically, than most heroic-fantasy novels.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Quite remarkable . . . an outstanding novel of strange adventure.”

—Analog (for The Birthgrave)

“The Birthgrave is one of the most beautifully written pieces of fantasy I have ever read.”

—The Drexel Triangle

“Lee paints her scenes rather than writes them; there’s no other way to describe it. Her characters live and breathe off the page, and the reader is drawn into a world of magic and barbarism. It’s not a pretty world. Lee does not write the sweet fantasies of Tolkien, Beagle, or even Cabell. Her fantasy worlds are cruel, painful, dirty, harsh, and frequently depressing. But they are at the same time colorful, real, and absorbing.”

—Critical Mass

“An exciting, feverish, obsession-laden sword and sorcery epic, unlike anything then current—or, arguably, since.”

—LOCUS (for The Birthgrave)

“Marvelously paced and beautifully written.”

—British Fantasy Society Bulletin (for The Birthgrave)

“A quality tour de force not to be missed.”

—Science Fiction Review (for The Birthgrave)

“Vazkor is full of what all Tanith Lee novels are renowned for: lost cities, ancient empires crumbled, savages aping old cultures, violence, vengeance, tragedy, death and gore.”

—Madison Review of Books

DAW Books presents new and classic works of imaginative fiction by multiple award-winning author TANITH LEE

THE BIRTHGRAVE TRILOGY

THE BIRTHGRAVE

SHADOWFIRE

(originally published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor)

HUNTING THE WHITE WITCH

(originally published as Quest for the White Witch)

TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH

NIGHT’S MASTER

DEATH’S MASTER

DELUSION’S MASTER

DELIRIUM’S MISTRESS

NIGHT’S SORCERIES

EARTH’S MASTER

THE WARS OF VIS

THE STORM LORD

ANACKIRE

THE WHITE SERPENT

AND MORE:

COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD

VOLKHAVAAR

ELECTRIC FOREST

SABELLA

KILL THE DEAD

DAY BY NIGHT

LYCANTHIA

DARK CASTLE, WHITE HORSE

CYRION

SUNG IN SHADOW

TAMASTARA

THE GORGON AND OTHER BEASTLY TALES

DAYS OF GRASS

A HEROINE OF THE WORLD

REDDER THAN BLOOD

DAW is proud to be reissuing these classic books in new editions, as well as publishing new works from Tanith Lee, beginning in 2015.

Copyright © 1978 by Tanith Lee.

Originally published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor.

All Rights Reserved.

Cover art by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme.

Cover design by G-Force Design.

DAW Book Collectors No. 272.

Published by DAW Books, Inc.

375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.

All resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.

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First Printing, January 1978.

First New Edition Printing, September 2015