Delusion's Master
core novel 1981 Tales from the Flat Earth
Record
| First published | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (1,169 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 208 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780879976521 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Delusion's Master is the third novel in the Tales from the Flat Earth series, moving the mythic cycle's focus to Chuz, Prince of Madness, one of the Lords of Darkness who preside over different facets of the Flat Earth's supernatural order. As in the earlier volumes, the story unfolds as a sequence of linked, legend-like episodes rather than one continuous narrative, following how Chuz's touch of madness spreads into the lives of mortals and draws the attention of the other demon lords, including Azhrarn, whose interventions have shaped the series since its first book. The book continues the series' recurring pattern of gods and demons toying with human fate, set against the same richly mythic, Arabian Nights-inflected backdrop established in Night's Master and Death's Master.
Where it sits
- Universe: Tales from the Flat Earth
- Series: Tales from the Flat Earth core; position 3 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 3 of 5: previous Death's Master (1979) · next Delirium's Mistress (1986)
Sources
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