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TOR BOOKS BY

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

Dark Satanic

The Inheritor

Witch Hill

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M A R I 0 N

Z I M M E R

B R A D L E Y

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A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK

NEW YORK

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer.

Ghostlight / Marion Zimmer Bradley.

p. cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN 0-3 ~2-8588z-7

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this

novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

GHOSTLIGHT

thereof, in any form.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer.

Ghostlight / Marion Zimmer Bradley.

p. cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book,"

ISBN o-3 I2-8588I-7

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CIP

First edition: September I995

Printed in the United States of America

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PROLOGUE

April 3 o, 1969, $hadowkill,

New York

THE FREAK SPRING STORM BATTERED THE OLD HOUSE WITH UN-

ceasing ferocity, as if attempting to gain entry to that which went on

within. Flashes of lightning burst upon the figures inside the room with

staccato intensity, illuminating the scene as if for some demonic surgeon's

scalpel.

It was a circular room, its only windows those that ringed the cupola

above. Below those windows a ritual as old as the land upon which the

house stood was being enacted. Between the lightning flashes, the candles

the observers held provided the only illumination, but it was enough.

A naked woman reclined upon a draped wooden altar, her body glis-

tening with oil. Her black hair was spread like a fan over the furs and

velvets on which she lay. At her head a red-robed woman stood, her own

head thrown back in ecstatic communion with the forces summoned here

tonight. Her hands cupped the unclad woman's temples and she cried

out words in an ancient tongue in counterpoint to the thunder.

Seven men and one woman, robed all in dark forest green, stood at

the quarter and cross-quarter points of a circle cut into the floor. Another

robed figure stood just outside its barrier. Each held a beeswax candle

in his hands; their chanting a sonorous antiphon to the red-robed woman's

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ecstatic cries. In the north and in the west, braziers filled with incense

sent their perfumed smoke skyward in pearlescent columns; in the east

and in the south, great crystal bowls filled with water and with flowers

hummed faintly, resonating to the ecstatic chanting and the fury of the

storm.

Over the sound of wind and voices, a hammering could be heard at

the chamber's one entrance.

"He comes! He comes! He comes/" shrilled the red-robed woman.

The chanting stopped. The doors flew open.

A man stood in the doorway. His eyes were shadowed and his long

blond hair flowed free. His head was crowned with silver antlers and on

his brow was the golden disk of the sun. His skin gleamed with oil and

shadowy painted designs. He wore nothing but an animal skin tied about

his shoulders, and before him he bore, point raised, a great silver sword

that gleamed in the light of the candles.

"I am the key for every lock," he intoned in a voice that held the deep

organ notes of the sea. "I am the Opener of the Way/"

He paced slowly forward, sword upheld, until he reached the robed

figure standing in the South and--lightly, lightly--touched the point of

the sword to his chest. The man fell back, and the others all began to

chant, their voices faster and somehow more urgent.

"The sun! Comes the sun! By Oak and Ash and Thorn, the sun! Comes

the sun!"

"The sun is coming up from the South!" cried the red-robed woman.

"I call thee: Abraxas, Metatron, Uranos..."

Her litany went on unheeded. The horned man lay his great sword

down at the foot of the altar and leaned over the naked woman. The

smell of ambergris, civet, and'opium rising from her skin was strong

enough for him to smell even through all the other perfumes. The empty

wine cup was still clasped loosely in her hand.

"Katherine--are you all right?" he whispered under the sound of the

chanting. He could feel the power building in him; the ritual was pro-

ceeding just as he had written it, but something here in his Temple this

night was not right.

At the sound of his voice her eyes opened. Even with only candlelight

to see by he could tell that the pupils were enormous with drugs.

"Come... the... Opener of the Way," she said, her voice slurred and

husky.

The robed ones at the perimeter of the circle chanted in unison, their

voices blending into an uprush of power that would not be denied.

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G H O ST LI G H T 9

"By Abbadon! Meggido! Typhon! Set!" cried the red-robed woman.

"Open now, open now the Way!"

Her eyes rolled up in her head and she sank to her knees, and the

horned man could feel the Powers congregate within the Temple like a

rushing of wings. He drew a deep, chest-expanding breath and raised his

hands to the heavens.

"Hierodule and Hierolator! Hierophex and Hierophant--" he cried

OUt.

His voice was drowned in a crescendo of thunderclaps, blending with

each other into the roar of an onrushing train. The doors, closed a moment

before by one of the robed acolytes, burst open again with enough force

to shatter their hinges, and an icy gale poured into the room.

"No! Don't break the Circle!" the horned man shouted, but it was

futile. Panic spread like a fire through oil-soaked rags; all was screaming

and chaos.

In a flash of lightning he saw the woman on the altar fall to the ground

and begin vibrating spasmodically, like a puppet in the hands of a vengeful

god. A crack of thunder louder than any before it seemed to split the

room like an executioner's axe.

Then darkness.

Screams.

And, somewhere, a child crying.

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