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In a World of Gods and Monsters: Episode Two
Paperback
Series: In a World of Gods and Monsters, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.24 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.
* * * * *
Eve asks God for a word, any word, and He gives her one: Out.
Ten thousand years later, the first man is loose in a city where the gods live in public, and half of them want him in a cage.
The Devil stands at the gates of a fortress in the pines at dawn and lets the rifles find him. Persephone offers the Underworld, which keeps what it takes, as his cell. In a graveyard at three in the morning, Gina tries to give Death his ring back.
The god of love reads an email from a twenty-five-year-old who wants a soulmate and offers to sacrifice a goat. An archangel pitches Heaven on Vent Stations to replace the confession booth. At the end of a pier, mermaids kiss men and pull them under, and the men still on the pier lean further out.
Then a dig team pulls something out from under twenty feet of rock in Sinai.
A man buries a thing, it stays buried. God buries a thing, it waits.
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 Two contains violence, strong language, nudity, and suicidal thoughts.
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