Quest for the King

THE ARCHIVES
OF ANTHROPOS

Cover illustration by
Vic Mitchell

Interior illustrations by
Jack Stockman

I The Disappearing Newlyweds
9

2 Torn from Lion Rock
19

3 The Keys to Magic
34

4 The Three Philosophers
48

5 Kurt and the Column of Smoke
64

6 Mary Hangs On
76

7 A Growing Madness
87

8 The Spirit in the Night
102

9 A Sort of Sanctuary
115

10 Shadows in the Temple
130

11 Peril at the Waterfall
144

12 Yearning for Terror
155

13 Prisoners of the Crown
166

14 King Tobah Khukah
180

15 The Ancestral Curse
191

16 The World in the Woods
201

17 Disguised by Surprise
212

18 Danger in the Woods
223

19 The Cave in the Cleft
236

20 The King
247

21 The Return of the Queen
260

22 Under the Cloak of Secrecy
272

23 Against the Temple
283

24 Over the River and Through the Woods
299

25 A Helping of Humble Pie
313

Appendix: How I Came to Write the Archives of Anthropos
317

So this was it. Finis! The wedding was actually taking place.

It was very unfair. It should never have happened. Think of itmarried at the age of fifty-two for the first time to a lady who looked
like somebody's grandmother. They said she was only fifty-only, if
you please!

Mary had needed, and still needed, Uncle John for herself. She
lived with him, along with her three cousins, Wesley, Lisa and Kurt.
They had their own mother and father-and were with them now on
a visit to Singapore-but Mary had no one. Mary had always felt she
had an extra claim on Uncle John. She could have managed if she
could only have hung on to him. But now this. Mary's thoughts were
not the kind you were supposed to have in church, especially in an
Anglican church. But then, people shouldn't many when they're positively ancient. Mary kicked the kneeling stool in front of her.