When the Idols Walked

When the Idols Walked

First edition
Author John Jakes
Cover artist Charles Moll
Country United States
Language English
Series Brak series
Genre Fantasy short stories
Published 1978 (Pocket Books)
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 158 pp
ISBN 0-671-81373-0
Preceded by The Mark of the Demons
Followed by The Fortunes of Brak

When the Idols Walked is a fantasy novel by John Jakes featuring his sword and sorcery hero Brak the Barbarian.

Publication history

The story was first published in the magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination as a two-part serial in the issues for August and September 1964, the first of which featured the story in its title illustration. It was first published in book form as a paperback by Pocket Books in February 1978, with When the Idols Walked as the title page title and Brak: When the Idols Walked as the cover title. The latter was also adopted for the second edition, also in paperback, issued by Tower Books in 1981. The novel was later gathered together with Witch of the Four Winds and two stories from The Fortunes of Brak into the omnibus collection Witch of the Four Winds / When the Idols Walked, published as an ebook by Open Road Integrated Media in July 2012. The book has been translated into German[1]

Plot

Continuing his quest to reach the glorious southern realm of Khurdisan the Golden, Brak, a blond, braided and broadsword-wielding barbarian from the frozen north, reaches the sea, where he hopes to find a ship to take him to his goal. But his party is attacked by raiders who capture him and consign him to servitude as a galley slave. And he soon learns that the sea contains far worse horrors as well, most notably an idol animated by the spirit of a witch seeking vengeance against her betrayers.

Notes

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