Delirium's Mistress

core novel 1986 Tales from the Flat Earth

Record

First published	1986
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.22 (869 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
Page count	416
First-edition ISBN	9780886771355
Internal chronology	4

Synopsis

Delirium's Mistress is the fourth book in Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth series, continuing the mythic cycle of the Lords of Darkness and their entanglements with the mortal world. It follows Azhriaz, a demoness connected to Azhrarn, whose fate becomes bound up with gods and mortals alike as the series' cosmology of the Flat Earth's supernatural rulers continues to unfold. Told in the same sequence of linked, legend-like episodes used throughout the series, the book carries forward threads from the earlier volumes while introducing new entanglements between the immortal Lords of Darkness and the human lives they touch, set against the same Arabian Nights-inflected mythic backdrop established since Night's Master.

Where it sits

• Universe: Tales from the Flat Earth
• Series: Tales from the Flat Earth core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Tanith Lee

Notes

• From the series record (Tales from the Flat Earth): A cycle of interlinked, Arabian Nights-inspired dark mythic fantasies about the Lords of Darkness who rule a legendary flat world before the age of humanity as it is now known. The author died in 2015; treated as complete at the five novels published as the main sequence.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

• Reading order, within the series Tales from the Flat Earth: position 4 of 5: previous Delusion's Master (1981) · next Night's Sorceries (1987)

Sources

• Wikipedia

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