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Crowstone (1983) - Simon - 12-17-2025
Grateful thanks to Edmund Marlowe for providing the PDF this conversion is based on.
Crowstone seems to have something of a Holy Grail status among boylove books of the 70s and 80s, although Edmund has had it available on greek-love.com for quite some time. I think this is the first time an ebook of it has been provided anywhere, and I'm glad to share it with all of you.
If you enjoy a good escapist sword-and-sorcery tale, plenty of erotic activity involving boys, not a woman in sight, and good triumphing over evil, then this is definitely for you. There are even some dim pre-echoes of Harry Potter. What more could you ask!
If you've been reading the volumes from Coltsfoot and Acolyte Press I've been posting over the last few months, you might have noticed that where the books required conversion and/or editing I've standardised their appearance in terms of layout, font(s), and general presentation, thus setting a TNT "house style" for the genre. It's not disparaging of the original publishers to say that because they were operating on a shoestring budget, the quality of what they produced was patchy, and in nearly all cases the attentions of a good copy editor would have improved the presentation enormously.
I'm not claiming that description for myself, but I have tried to correct obvious errors on the part of printers and authors. My editing has been light and hasn't detracted from the author's intention. At least I hope not.
Quote: Qamar, fairest of the 108 moons orbiting th gas planet of Algol, Here a strange and wonderful civilization has developed. In Suvyamara, gen[tle] city sinking sadly into the sea, boys of the Viridine Temple dance the Epodes — and the citizens worship among other deities, Varon, the boy-love god.
Two strangers meet and defeat a band of air pirates in a boy-bordello: a scrivening monk (and professional thief) from another Algolian moon and a long-haired, kilted warrior from the northern mountains of Far Thuren. So begins a gripping and erotic adventure of dance, spells, magicians, ghouls, dragons, rescues, abductions and seductions . . .
And a score of boys, all ecstatically approaching or just over the threshold of puberty: raven-haired Jethael, greatest Temple dancer in memory; blond Xiri of Thurenian blood; tattooed Dragon from the Chromatic Wastes; red-haired Kael, already at 14 a roistering lover and fighting rooster; voyeuristic Ravinan; pig-tailed Varonael who glows green at his sorcery.
The interweaving of the fates and loves of these men and boys, the drama of their epic quest to find and steal the power-bestowing Crowstone, makes this probably the grandest boy-love sword and sorcery novel ever published.