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Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 4
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim-aka James Stark-is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension.
In his previous three adventures-Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, and Aloha from Hell-Stark has fled Hell for California, taken on angels, demons, outlaw bikers, zombies, covert government operatives, and all manner of monsters, while saving humankind from total annihilation on...
3) I, Lucifer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Offered a chance to redeem himself by living a good life in human form, Lucifer inhabits the body of a suicidal writer and intends to set the world straight on everything from Adam and Eve to the Inquisition and Elton John.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem.
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While acting as a bodyguard for Lucifer and wooing a former French porn star, half-human fallen angel Stark is bitten by one of the many zombies roaming the countryside. This causes his human side to die and turns him into an emotionless killing machine. The condition has a cure-- should he choose to take it.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Every seven years, the people of Three Graces send a sacrifice to the woods. The death of their 'best boy' ensures seven years free from disease, blight, and pain. But this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early, and three, not one, will run into the forest as a sacrifice"--
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Satan tempts him with the promise of one more successful robbery, thief Lee Fontana, the night before he is paroled, must make a life-changing decision with the help of a spirited phantom cat who tails him on his dangerous mission.
Author
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most. But she's about to discover that the shadows in her life have been hiding a world where nothing is as it seems: that there's an ancient and secret machine that converts evil deeds into energy, that some mushrooms can talk - and that her grandfather has been friends with the Devil for over a hundred and fifty years, and now they need her help"--
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Harper Voyager paperback ed.
Language
English
Description
All hail Sandman Slim, author Richard Kadrey's ultra-extreme anti-hero and recent escapee from Lucifer's overheated Underworld playground. Legendary author William Gibson (Neuromancer) called Kadrey's first deliciously twisted Slim adventure "an addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece," and in number three, Aloha from Hell, the ruthless avenger, a.k.a. Stark, finds himself trapped in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"...Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil -- the polite "Gentleman" of the title -- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party's over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord....
Author
Series
Johannes Cabal volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul--he hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Sataon, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager, Johannes has one years to persuade one hundred people to sign over...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 339
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In The Coup, a surprising departure from his prior novels, Updike stages a withering take down of an array of targets, from American materialism and its baleful effects on the developing world to the follies of Cold War geopolitics and the fevered megalomania of the dictatorial mind. In Rabbit Is Rich, the third installment of the Rabbit tetralogy, we meet up with Harry Angstrom, now 46, dealing as best he can with the challenges and cares of midlife,...
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