Lo and on the "Thousandyear Eve," Anubis, Lord of the House of the Dead, gave his faithful servant the name of Wakim and sent him on a mission to the Midway worlds to search out and destroy "the Prince Who Was a Thousand" [in Creatures of Light and Darkness]. But Wakim was deceived for "the Prince Who Was a Thousand" was both his son and his father …? It's psychedelic myth … chasing phantoms across eternal chasms … a very heady head trip … for probably very few passengers.
"Fiction: 'Creatures of Light and Darkness'," in Kirkus Reviews (copyright © 1969 The Kirkus Service, Inc.), Vol. XXXVII, No. 14, July 15, 1969, p. 745.
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