The Rider Haggard Library

In which the travellers, guided by the mysterious priest Oros, find shelter and healing upon the mountain of the fire-worshipping cult, and are led through a vast and awe-inspiring temple where the an...

25 Apr 39min

In which two weary travellers, Leo Vincey and Horace Holly, arrive at a mysterious mountain sanctuary where the veiled Priestess Hes, the Oracle of the shrine, listens intently to their solemn tale an...

25 Apr 33min

In which two weary travellers, wounded and haunted by savage foes, seek refuge and guidance from a mysterious veiled figure who leads them through eerie mountain passes and a valley of bones to a stra...

25 Apr 44min

In which the intrepid visitors find themselves in the highest tower of a forbidding palace, where grave revelations unfold concerning the tangled fates of the Khania Atene, the mad Khan Rassen, and th...

24 Apr 25min

In which the fugitives make their daring escape from the palace under the cloak of night, pursued fiercely by the Khan’s relentless pack of death-hounds across the arid plains towards the distant Moun...

24 Apr 35min

In which the weary travellers arrive at the grim and decaying court of Kaloon, where they are received amidst a dissolute and troubled nobility under the shadow of a jealous, mad Khan and his noble bu...

24 Apr 25min

In which the narrator and his foster-son, reunited after trials and tended by the mysterious Khania, journey through the peaceful and bountiful country of Kaloon toward a city beneath a foreboding vol...

23 Apr 28min

In which a recovered Holly learns from the shaman Simbri of the ancient and mysterious customs, powers, and rivalries that govern the land of Kaloon and encounters the striking and troubled Khania Ate...

23 Apr 25min