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Here are eight of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow’s most controversial stories, including three previously uncollected ones. Each deals with a “sacred cow” of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and subjects it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian, mythographer, and fantasist. Violent, sometimes kinky, these stories nevertheless reach surprising epiphanies about faith and redemption. A curiously sympathetic Antichrist hunts down the next messiah with the aid of a unicorn. St Paul ponders about whether, in order to make his miraculous new religion work, he needs to get rid of an ...

PUBLISHER WARNING This work contains high levels of violence, graphic descriptions of death, male nudity and adult themes that may offend some readers. The author recommends readers must be 18+ years of age. FROM THE AUTHOR Welcome to the world of Jack Steel, a journey through worlds both real and imagined, full of heroism, adventure and raw masculinity on an epic scale. These are tales filled with brawn and brutality, where our heroes willingly fight to the death or die trying. As the publisher warning states, these stories are not for everyone. They contain high levels of violence, ...

A meeting in a cemetery somewhere in Las Vegas between a pale-faced witch and a servant to the albino demon named Synner. She gives him an ancient sword that holds the powers that will kill Cadence Mage. A year before, there was a battle at The Saint Joan of Arc Church, an event Cadence wanted to forget. The battle left him holding his dead love, Meadow, in his arms. Unaware his mother placed Meadow’s soul inside the three-headed dagger and in time, with Tidus Brack’s help, they enter the dream world to bring her back from the dead, but bringing her back will come with a price. The pale...

Welcome to the Sorrows—where nightmares bleed into reality, and nothing is what it seems. Maddie Monroe is twenty-two, stuck slinging coffee in a graveyard-shift diner and clinging to dreams of escape. But when she defends a scarred, cryptic stranger from a brutal attack, her life is ripped apart—and hurled into another world. The Sorrows is not a place for the weak. It's a realm of twisted magic, broken souls, and creeping madness. Maddie has no map, no allies—except for a band of misfits who are each more dangerous than they appear: – a disgraced royal advisor haunted by his past ...

Scarred by a brutal past, she has sworn to help those in need. As one of the Hundred, Yvonne cannot ignore a plea for help, even if all she wants is a quiet life, somewhere safe for her adopted children to grow into adulthood. Safety is in short supply. Young people, some of them children, are going missing in large numbers, leaving bewildered and grieving families behind. It’s not something she can ignore. She finds an ally in an arrogant goblin lord, who seems intent on following her from place to place. With her skills in magic, and his resources, can they track down the kidnappers?

Trapped. He fell through the gate to Hell to save my life. Beelzebub, the Lord of Gluttony, is no longer his own. He’s been mine ever since he caught me singing to myself, falling prey to the magic of my song. If I can keep my distance, we can both move on. But now, he is caught under my spell, which makes him forbidden to touch. And yet, he is the only one I can trust to get me back to Crystal Hollow. We’ll have to make it through the Nine Circles of Hell first. No matter what we lose along the way.

Reaper and Detective Sergeant Carol Sparks are on a mission from God. And lately, God has taken up residence in an eight-year-old girl named Charlotte who has tasked them with catching the train to hell, unveiling the bad guy who remains hidden from Charlotte's view and rescuing an innocent soul who shouldn't be there in the first place. On route, the pair will have to overcome demons from their pasts while coming face-to-face with an adversary whose power and abilities match those of Reaper's. There's a new bad guy in town and this one isn't afraid to break all the rules of life, death and...

Within the twisted labyrinth of poetic verse, an exquisite essence of melancholy and despair awaits, made with threads of shadow and moonlight. Here, we are not merely spectators, but participants in a somber ritual, drawn into a world where sorrow reigns supreme. The Gothic realm embraces the darkness not as a void, but as a fertile ground for the imagination, a sanctuary for the unsettling and the sublime. For it knows that even immortality, that coveted dream of ages, can be shrouded in metaphorical cobwebs, its allure tarnished by the relentless passage of time and the weight of endless...

Klappentext: Was, wenn dich jemand hören, sehen und fühlen lassen kann, wie er es möchte? Was, wenn er deine Realität bestimmt, nur um an sein Ziel zu gelangen? Keiner ist ihm gewachsen. Nach Belieben manipuliert Kilian Menschen und vernebelt ihren Verstand. Er ist skrupellos, egoistisch, übernatürlich. Doch seine Gier macht in unvorsichtig. Als er genau an die Person gerät, die man sich besser nicht zum Feind macht, nimmt seine Erfolgsstory ein jähes Ende. Es beginnt mit ihrem Erscheinen. Ein Lächeln, eine Unterhaltung und dann bricht die Hölle los.

Ihr Rachedurst droht die Welt zu zerstören – kann er sie zurückholen, bevor alles zu spät ist? Diannas Herz ist gebrochen. Blindlings auf Rache sinnend beschließt sie, sich von ihrem letzten Fetzen Menschlichkeit loszusagen und die Welt voller Wut in Brand zu setzen. Nur der Gott Samkiel weigert sich zu glauben, dass Dianna vollends zu dem Monster geworden ist, für das sie alle halten. Er versucht alles in seiner Macht stehende, um sie vor sich selbst zu retten – auch wenn das bedeuten könnte, sich selbst zu verlieren.

Wenn die Finsternis dich verschlingt und deine Albträume lebendig werden, gibt es kein Entkommen mehr … Als Lyn die schockierende Wahrheit über Blazeʼ wahre Identität erfährt, ist die Flucht bereits unmöglich – sie befindet sich tief im Schattenreich, gefangen in den Klauen des düsteren Thronerben selbst. Widerwillig begleitet sie Blaze und seine Armee zum königlichen Hof von Nyxia. Aber je tiefer sie in das dunkle Reich vordringen, desto mehr wird Lyn mit bitteren Wahrheiten konfrontiert, die nicht nur ihre eigene Zukunft, sondern das Schicksal zweier Königreiche auf ewig verändern könnten.

When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force dismiss the case as a series of unfortunate suicides due to the patients’ loneliness. But Su-Yeon doesn’t have the privilege of looking away: her dearest friend, Grandma Eun-Shim, lives on the sixth floor, and Su-Yeon is terrified that something will happen to her next.

Das spektakuläre Finale von Jay Kristoffs epischer Fantasy-Bestsellertrilogie um Das Reich der Vampire. Gabriel de León hat seine Familie, seinen Glauben und seine letzte Hoffnung auf ein Ende der endlosen Nacht verloren – den Heiligen Gral, Dior. Einzig der Gedanke an Rache hält ihn aufrecht. Also begibt er sich mit einer Gruppe treuer Freunde in das vom Krieg zerrüttete Herz des Reiches, um den Ewigen König zu töten. Doch Gabriel irrt. Dior hat seinen eigenen Tod überlebt – und eilt in der schwachen Hoffnung, den Tagestod für immer zu beenden, ebenfalls auf die belagerte Hauptstadt zu.

In six days, she found the truth. And the truth had teeth. When newly widowed Lisa Tillman moves into a modest bungalow on a quiet Virginia street, she’s hoping to rebuild, quietly, painfully, one box at a time. But the house doesn’t want to be rebuilt. Strange noises echo through the walls. A little girl appears and vanishes. Doors won’t stay shut. And something waits in the back bedroom… something that knows her name. As Lisa’s grasp on reality begins to fray, she discovers the house holds a brutal secret, buried under years of lies and silence. But some truths don’t stay ...

She was never meant to survive the fire. The night Sylvia Drake’s house burned to the ground, she was supposed to die in it. Her parents did. And the only one left standing—her sister Dotia—wasn’t grieving. She was calculating. Saved by a thread and a lie, Sylvia awakens to find herself not rescued, but blamed. The sheriff wants someone to answer for the blaze. The town wants a quiet scapegoat. And Dotia? She's gone. Again. Elijah, the boy who once shattered her trust, offers her one impossible escape: vanish with him into the mountains, forge a new identity, and disappear across ...

After waking up in a tower with no memory of events past her adolescence, Rose must examine every nook and cranny of her prison in the sky to solve the mystery of who brought her here and how she might escape. She soon realizes the contents of the room--clothing that fits perfectly, a hairbrush that rests naturally in her hand--are her own belongings, and as she starts to piece together her past, she discovers that an even greater mystery resides in her own identity. There’s a wedding band here, and a golden locket containing a photo of a family she’s convinced are her husband and ...

When Beatrix Brighton—a New Hampshire professor with expertise in demonology—receives a desperate call from her father about a fungal plague consuming his home, she expects to find another easily explained phenomenon. Instead, she discovers a city in the grip of something inexplicable: toxic spores blanket every surface, buildings sprout through with yellow growths, and the residents are slowly changing, their minds colonized by something that lurks in the bayou's depths.

Xander Cross is tired. He’s been fighting this war for years now with no end in sight, and now that Zendal has sent his largest demon fleet to destroy the planet of Malifakt VII, the Republic’s prized jewel, he realizes that his end has finally come. Yet, there is hope. Learning of a new artifact powerful enough to defeat Zendal, he gathers his friends for another dangerous mission. Together, they set off for Arda, a mysterious planet on the other side of the galaxy where young and innocent women are stolen from their villages by perverted goblins who use them for their pleasure. When...

Ensayo sobre Drácula en relación a su origen simbólico en la ancestral Rumania. Una mirada que nos lleva a entender los antiguos mitos de Rumania y de como Bram Stoker los utilizó para construir su novela "Drácula". Veremos la relación del personaje con el héroe rumano Vlad Tepes, lo que es la Orden del Dragón, la idea del vampiro y de otros seres fantásticos en Dacia, etc. Con la seriedad de un Mircea Eliade, la rigurosidad tradicional de René Guénon y de Vasile Lovinescu, el rumano Mihai Marinescu, intenta develar lo que hay detrás de la obsesión moderna por Drácula y el ...

A city of corrupt lords. The plots of the serpent priests. If Caina cannot find her way through the maze, she will pay in blood. Caina has come to the ancient city of New Kyre, seeking the masters of the deadly Cult of Rhadamathar. But the lords of New Kyre are treacherous and too corrupt to act in the face of the serpent priests. Unless Caina risks everything, the serpent priests will win a terrible and final victory...