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THE MAN WHO STOLE THE MOON by Tanith Lee

THE MAN WHO STOLE THE MOON

(A Story of the Flat Earth)

Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (tribute website: www3.

sympatico.ca/jim.pattison) lives in the

south of England. She is one of the

leading fantasy and horror writers of the

last three decades. Her first professional

sale was to The Ninth Pan Book of

Horror Stories (1968), and, in 1971,

Macmillan published The Dragon Hoard,

a children’s novel, followed by Animal

Castle, a children’s picture book, and

Princess Hynchatti & Some Other

Surprises, a short story collection (both

1972). After receiving numerous

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THE MAN WHO STOLE THE MOON by Tanith Lee

rejections from British publishers for her

adult fantasy novel The Birthgrave, she

wrote a letter of inquiry to DAW Books,

the American publishing firm founded by

well-known science fiction fan and editor

Donald A. Wolheim. DAW published The

Birthgrave in 1975, beginning a

relationship that lasted until 1989 and

saw the publication of 28 books

altogether. Among her most famous

works is the series of fantasy stories of

Flat Earth, collected in Night’s Master

(1978), Death’s Master (1979),

Delusion’s Master (1981), Delirium’s

Mistress (1986), and Night’s Sorceries

(1987).

“The Man Who Stole the Moon,” a Flat

Earth story, appeared in Weird Tales,

where Lee is a frequent contributor, and

which continues a distinguished tradition

of publishing fantasy and supernatural

horror going all the way back to 1923. In

the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith, this

is a powerful story of a thief and lover,

an overreaching demon, and a magical

world of evil.

As so often, from an idea by John Kailne.

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THE MAN WHO STOLE THE MOON by Tanith Lee

Several tales are told concerning the Moon of the Flat Earth. Some say

that this Moon, perhaps, was a hollow globe, within which lay lands and

seas, having even their own cool Sun. However, there are other stories.

One evening, Jaqir the accomplished thief rose from a bed of love and

said to his mistress, “Alas, sweetheart, we must now part forever.” Jaqir’s

mistress looked at him in surprise and shook out her bright hair. “You are

mistaken. My husband, the old merchant, is miles off again, buying silk

and other stuff, and besides suspects nothing. And I am well satisfied with

you.”

“Dear heart,” said Jaqir, as he dressed his handsome self swiftly, “neither

of these things is the stumbling block to our romance. It is only this. I

have grown tired of you.”

“Tired of me!” cried the lady, springing from the bed.

“Yes, though indeed you are toothsome in all respects. I am inconstant

and easily bored. You must forgive me.”

“Forgive you!” screamed the lady, picking up a handy vase.

Jaqir ducked the vase and swung nimbly out of the high window, an

action to which he was quite accustomed, from his trade. “Although a

deceiver in my work, honesty in my private life is always my preferred

method,” he added, as he dropped quickly down through the vine to the

street below. Once there he was gone in a flash, and just in time to miss

the jar of piddle the lady that moment upended from the window.

However, three of the king’s guard, next second passing beneath, were not

so fortunate.

“A curse upon all bladders,’” howled they, wringing out their cloaks and

hair. Then looking up, they beheld the now no-longer mistress of Jaqir,

and asked her loudly what she meant by it.

“Pardon me, splendid sirs,” said she. “The befoulment was not intended

for you, but for that devilish thief, Jaqir, who even now runs through that

alley there toward a hiding place he keeps in the House of the Thin Door.”

At the mention of Jaqir, who was both celebrated and notorious in that

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