ection>Abraham Merritt
THE SHIP OF ISHTAR: Sci-Fi Classic
SF & Fantasy Novel
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4293-1
Table of Contents
19. The Lord Of The Two Deaths
24. The Gods — And Man’s Desire
27. How They Fared Back To The Ship
PART I
1 THE COMING OF THE SHIP
A tendril of the strange fragrance spiralled up from the great stone block. Kenton felt it caress his face like a coaxing hand.
He had been aware of that fragrance — an alien perfume, subtly troubling, evocative of fleeting unfamiliar images, of thought-wisps that were gone before the mind could grasp them — ever since he had unsheathed from its coverings the thing Forsyth, the old archaeologist, had sent him from the sand shrouds of ages-dead Babylon.
Once again his eyes measured the block — four feet long, a little more than that in height, a trifle less in width. A faded yellow, its centuries hung about it like a half visible garment.
