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In a World of Gods and Monsters: Episode One
Paperback
Series: In a World of Gods and Monsters, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 4 2024
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The gods are real, and so are the monsters. Both have been here since before the Flood, and the gods are getting old in public.
Everything holy costs. Healing opens a wound somewhere else. Prophecy burns out the prophet's eyes, and a resurrection needs a funeral to pay for it.
Famine keeps his lips stitched shut. A trickster god wins every bet he makes. Death used to date a woman named Gina, and her silver ring buys back thirty seconds. She pays for every one in blood.
Then the first man walks out of Hell after ten thousand years and searches every face in the city.
God says Adam is free to choose. The Devil says Adam already did.
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A boy at the piano in a dead saloon at the edge of nothing has been waiting for one customer, and tonight he walks in barefoot.
Behind him comes a man in a white suit who holds a claim on his soul.
Across the city, Gina sits in a bar lit pink and dares two baby vampires to bite her. Then every television comes on at once. Death steps onto Centre Court to play an old man for fifty more years of life, and Gina's thumb finds her ring.
Under a collector's house, the prisoner in cell A04 runs warm for the first time in six hundred years.
Somebody opened a door that should have stayed welded shut, and by dawn every power in the city is asking for a name.
In a World of Gods and Monsters is a serialized dark fantasy, a theological noir set in a city that feels like America and fits on no map. The series is for readers of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Mike Carey's Lucifer, and Scott Hawkins's The Library at Mount Char.
Episode One contains violence, strong language, and scenes of attempted suicide.Also in
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