Much later Dilvish prevents Jhelerak from sacrificing a young woman and Jhelerak turns Dilvish's body to stone, sending his soul to the deepest Hell the...
DILVISH is a compilation of several short stories that Zelazny wrote so each section is broken into different chapters.
The city of Dilfar was under siege, and only Dilvish, descendant of Selar, could raise the ghostly legions of Shoredan...
A hero who was banished to Hell for hundreds of years, his escape to the Prime Material plane (read: Earth) begins his quest to find Jelerak, the evil wizard (of course) who originally sent him to his supposed doom centuries before.
On his travels Dilvish goes through a number of challenges and hurdles, not unlike the twelve labors of Hercules.
Dilvish is a moralistic man at heart, even though consumed by thoughts of revenge for the time he lost during his banishment, so he stays at the Aache shrine to set up a more lucrative and therefore non-thieving way for Aache and her people to survive.
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Much later Dilvish prevents Jhelerak from sacrificing a young woman and Jhelerak turns Dilvish's body to stone, sending his soul to the deepest Hell the dark mage can manage.
Just as Jhelerak was completely changed by the actions of the Maleficient, Dilvish riding a fl mount "from hell" and equipped with the flest of magics, the Awful Sayings and the eyes of a demon, returns for vengence.
And "'Damned if you do and damned if you don't,' said Dilvish the Damned, dismounting" referring to Dilvish's tendency to risk his life for damsels in distress].
His captivating descriptions of the nuts and bolts of magical workings in his imagined worlds set his writing apart from otherwise similar authors.
He was a prolific writer and, with the exception of the Amber novels (and the related pairs Madwand/The Changeling, Isle of the Dead/To Die in Italbar, and Dilvish the Damned/The Changing Land), created a completely new setting for each book.
While his earlier works won greater critical acclaim, Zelazny is probably best known for the Amber novels.
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