Ace, New York, 1980, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-441-76353-7.  MMPB, 255 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, age toning; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘In pursuit of the undying wizard, Thulsa Doom, Cormac mac Art and his giant red-bearded companion Wulfhere Hausakluifr have travelled far and suffered much.  At last the sorcerer is theirs, imprisoned in the only way his magic cannot overcome: impaled with two long swords on the mast of Cormac’s ship.  Listen as Bas the Druid reads the prophecy found on the walls of the castle of King Kull: “The skull of the undying wizard, severed and wrapped in good leather, must be put into the hands of a crowned woman.  She must pound the skull into dust with a hammer of iron…” But even as the Druid speaks, Cormac’s ship seems to shudder – and suddenly the familiar shores of Eirrin are no more.  For the wizard, unable to escape his fate, has vanished into another dimension – and has taken his captors with him!’ (from rear wrap)