Introduction: when the world grows old / by Lin Carter -- Zothique -- Xeethra -- Necromancy in Naat -- The empire of the necromancers -- The master of crabs -- The death of Ilalotha -- The weaver in the vault -- The witchcraft of Ulua -- The charnel god -- The dark Eidolon -- Morthylla -- The black abbot of Puthuum -- The tomb-spawn -- The last hieroglyph -- The isle of the torturers -- The garden of Adompha -- The voyage of king Euvoran -- Epilogue: the sequence of the Zothique tales.