Once I pulled it off the shelf and saw the cover I knew this would be a good book. I saw the title and immediately fell in love with it. While browsing my local used bookstore I came across this beauty. 'With Lee… expect the unexpected.' -Starburst 'Tanith Lee is one of the most powerful and intelligent writers in fantasy.' -Publishers Weekly Only one thing, it seems, motivates Parl Dro. If he will face that, what use the pleas of the desperate sisters, Cilny and Ciddey, what use the rage of Myal, with his genius for music and his imperfect talent for crime? He is seeking too the greatest stronghold of the deadalive: Ghyste Mortua, the ghost town in the mountains, and he means to destroy it. And now he will not be turned aside, no matter how you may threaten, curse or weep. But not everyone welcomes an exorcist who will remorselessly deprive them of their beloved dead.ĭro began his vocation at an early age. Some have bought his services for gold, and some have blessed him for his work. Out of the dusk he comes striding, the stranger, the man in black, inevitable as death itself: Parl Dro-Ghost Slayer. She wrote 90 novels and 300 short stories. In 1980, she was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for the novel Death's Master. By 1975, she was able to write full time.

In 1971, she published her first novel The Dragon Hoard. She dropped out of college and held several different jobs. Her parents were both dancers and they moved around a lot. Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – ) lived in England.

The Dragon Hoard by Tanith Lee