Contents

NOTE ON THIS ENGLISH EDITION

This volume collects the fourth trio of a dozen-part series. The cover art was for the original Book Twelve, while Books Ten and Eleven’s have been included as a gatefold.

Where appropriate, the transliterations provided in the footnotes add bars called “macrons” above vowels for a closer approximation of the pronunciation, including for names and words that appear without them in the main text. A syllable with “Ō” is supposed to sound more like boat than bot. A repeated consonant like “CC” should be construed in the same manner as in Rebecca.