Synopsis: From the flaps of the Ganley first edition: "Further exploits of David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamworld. If you haven't yet encountered those extraordinary swordsmen, Hero and Eldin, two waking-worlders adventuring in Dreams, don't worry, you can start with this collection of five tales of humor, adventure, and stark horror. (You can read the novels later.) Near Inquanok and Leng - that was the region of terror. Call it a beast, call it "Augeren", or just call it a thing. It was unknown but seemed all-knowing. It struck like lightning out of the darkness... and it always killed. And it ate. But most monstrous of all was how it killed and what it ate... Still, event he horror of "Augeren" pales before the hellish truth about the Veiled Kings of Inquanok. On the Isle of Oriab, beneath the ruins of half-forgotten Tyrhhia, lies the weird maze of the cruel Black Princess, Yath-Lhi. Skilled in the occult arts, Yath-Lhi would hunt down and trap vampires - and then drink their blood. At the center of the maze is her fabled treasure house, so say the ancient legends. But David Hero, lost in the maze, discovers that the mummified Black Princess herself waits there also - to visit a monstrous curse: first upon anyone who disturbs her tomb, and second, upon all the dreamlands."