Discovering the countess Yvette hiding behind a bush without any clothes on, Sergeant Thorolf is soon enlisted to take her to Rhaetia, a wizard, in order that he might change her form and help her elude her...
The carnelian cube of the title is a small red "dream stone" confiscated by archaeologist Arthur Cleveland Finch from one of the workers on the dig he is supervising. Sleeping with it beneath his pillow he finds himself cast into a parallel world as...