Notes
A film novelization.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the second printing of the 1983 Corgi paperback edition, ISBN 0552122785. Cover illustrator unknown.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
It descends from space... THE BLACK FORTRESS raining death and destruction upon the planet KRULL.

Who will rise to defend the people?
Who will defy the red-eyed Beast who dwells within the Fortress?

One man dares.

Colwyn, who is armed with the magical Glaive.
Colwyn, abetted by a band of newly freed felons; a Cyclops with a sorrowful secret; the magician Ergo, small in size but great in heart; an aged Seer; and a brave young boy.
Colwyn, whose betrothed is the captive of the Beast and fighting desperately to resist his loathsome embrace...