Michael Moorcock Library: The Chronicles of Corum: The Bull and the Spear
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Michael Moorcock's epic fantasy concludes!
Having outlived his one true love, Rhalina, Corum of the Scartlet Robe has spent decades living alone in the Castle Erorn dwelling in isolation, grief and sorrow. Over time, his legend has grown, as stories of his victories grew ever more embellished with each telling until people began building shrines to him and praying to him as they had prayed to their old gods, gods that Corum had helped them defeat in the first place.
When Corum's dreams are disturbed by strange voices he at first ignores them, until an old friend, Jhary-a-Conel (Companion to the Champion) arrives to chivvy Corum out of his fugg and convinces him to take the voices seriously. Corum discovers that the voices are being sent from the future by the descendants of Rhalina's own people who are being terrorised by seven terrible gods, the Fhoi Myore, who are on the brink of destroying the Mabden race for good.
Corum swears to defend the Mabden and sets out on a new quest to seek out the Black Bull of Crinanass the only weapon capable of destroying the Fhoi Myore. Along the way he encounters strange beings and overcomes difficult trials and is forced to confront a prophecy that warns Corum should fear a harp, a brother and a beauty.
MARK SHAINBLUM has worked as a journalist, editor and a science fiction and comic book writer. Aside from his work on Corum, Mark is best known as the author of the comic book series Northguard and Angloman. Mark, who was induced into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame in 2016, is also the recipient of the Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction. In 1997 he co-edited the award-winning alternate history anthology Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas and Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen (2016). JILL THOMPSON is best her Scary Godmother comic book series, which went on to spawn two television specials. She started her professional career in the 1980s working for publishers First Comics and Now Comics and has gone on to work for stage, film and television and every mainstream American comic book publisher including Marvel, Dark Horse and Bongo. She has drawn Wonder Woman, Sandman, Fables and Batman. She has won six Eisner Awards, and was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Award in 2011 for Best Comic Book Artists for her work on Beasts of Burden.