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100 1 _aBall, Clifford,
_d1908-1947
245 1 0 _aDuar the accursed
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-20
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Duar the accursed by Clifford Ball" is a sword-and-sorcery fantasy short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a barbarian adventurer entangled with a proud queen, a demon-guarded tower, and a sinister jewel, exploring fate, power, and the pull between human love and cosmic destiny. Captured by Queen Nione of Ygoth, the scarred warrior Duar is cast into the Pits, where the sorceress Shar—claiming ties to an ancient Elder Race and to Duar’s forgotten past—frees him and urges him to seek the Rose of Gaon in the Black Tower. Duar slips from his cell, confronts Nione in her chambers, and persuades her to guide him past the city’s guards. In the tower’s depths he battles an invisible force amid heaps of skeletons drawn to the jewel’s fatal lure, and, prompted by Shar, shatters the Rose, dispelling the demon that fed on it. Shar reveals that Duar bears Elder blood and once served as a high priest, pleading for him to remember and join her in reclaiming the world. He cannot, and chooses instead the mortal path—returning to Nione—while Shar’s fading whisper reminds him of the greater dominion he has refused. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937
653 _aShort stories
653 _aFantasy fiction
700 1 _aBrundage, Margaret,
_d1900-1976
700 1 _aFinlay, Virgil,
_d1914-1971
830 0 _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76127
999 _c116852
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