Zebra Books, 2nd printing 1977. First novel in the "Dream Lords" series, which also includes "Lord of Nightmares" (1975) and "Bane of Nightmares" (1976). Cole is a British author of Lovecraftian fantasy, sword & sorcery and other works, many aimed at young adult readers.

Centuries after the holocaust that destroyed Earth, Galad Sarian is exiled from his home planet of Zurjah to Karkesh, the desecrated city of chains on the planet Ur. There, the former heir to the Dream Lords throne is to be eternally imprisoned with the vilest species of monsters in all the nine worlds.

The third and final volume in the series, which also includes "A Plague of Nightmares" and "Lord of Nightmares."