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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of
the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

For Doctor A. C. Papadakis,

Valerie, Amanda, Charles Plan

and ail those others who, with Jill, helped create the

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Copyright ┬й 1981 by Michael Moorcock Cover artwork copyright ┬й 1985 Boris Vallejo

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Being the true testimony of the Graf Ulrich von Bek, lately Commander of Infantry, written down in
the Year of Our Lord 2680 by Brother Olivier of the Monastery at Renschel during the months of May
and June as the said nobleman lay upon his sickbed.

(This manuscript had, until now, remained sealed within the wall of the monastery's crypt. It came
to light during work being carried out to restore the structure, which had sustained considerable
damage during the Second World War. It came into the hands of the present editor via family
sources and appears here for the first time in a modern translation. Almost all the initial
translating work was that of Prinz Lob-kowitz; this English text is largely the work of Michael
Moorcock.)

Chapter I

IT WAS IN that year when the fashion in cruelty demanded not only the crucifixion of peasant
children, but a similar fate for their pets, that I first met Lucifer and was .transported into