Hyperborea

Contains

Canonical title

Hyperborea

Original title

Hyperborea

Important places

Hyperborea

First words

To the ancient Greeks, the fabled land of Hyperborea was an idyllic paradise—the Eden of the pagans. • • Introduction - Behind the North Wind

Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are t... (show all)he snows of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them ever. • • The Muse of Hyperborea

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Only at eve, when the west is like a brazen furnace, and the far-off mountains smoulder like ruddy gold in the depth of the heated heavens—only at eve, when the east grows infinite and vague, and the shadow of the waste are one with the increasing shadow of night—then, and only then, from their sullen throats of stone, a music rings to the bronze horizon—a strong, sombre music, strange and sonorous, like the singing of black stars, or a litany of gods that invoke oblivion; a music that thrills the desert to its heart of adamant, and trembles in the granite of forgotten tombs, till the last echoes of its jubilation, terrible as the trumpets of doom, are one with the black silence of infinity. • • The Memnons of the Night

Blurbers

Leiber, Fritz

Original language

English