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Kenneth Grant’s novella series, it consists of two novellas with a common theme of Ancient Egyptian sorcery, and four short stories. – The first novella, The Other Child, is a tale of two brothers, one a Child of Light, the other of Darkness, and the struggle for a cataclysmic magical power which they each partially embody. –

The second novella is The Stellar Lode, We learn of a small glass sphere into which, ages ago, was sealed by means of sorcery the soul of a powerful Egyptian Queen. The sphere exerts a powerful talismanic effect on those into whose hands it passes, each possessor playing an unwitting part in an urgent cosmic drama, echoing rôles which they had played ages past, in the original drama which gave birth to the sphere. –

Also included in this story are four powerful short stories having in common a state of perichoresis, or interpenetration of dimensions, across time and space