Is hell a real place? Do angels and demons actually exist? How can a person become demon-possessed? In an NBC poll, nine out of ten people believe in heaven, but hell polled much differently. Warning This book is very intense and not recommended for the faint of heart.

The story of Alluana and her twin brother Titan. They will be gifted with the designs to save the world, and while the world crumbles around them, they are placed in situations that only the brightest and most benevolent could accept.

Behold the ordinary world from the wrong side and nightmares and visions appear. These are strange, unquiet short fictions from the author of RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR and THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. A stripper loves a swinging lightbulb. An explorer encounters the Face of God. The accidental inventor of streaking. Children dig a hole to China. After his death a father's storytelling talent is discovered. A couple find the way to have a perfect relationship. A soldier at the front writes an absolutely perfect poem. A Sultan who despairs of finding the woman he desires in his well-stocked harem. A...

A little country surrounded by the Wall everyone knows is insurmountable. But the boy who refuses to be king vows to pass over it. Young as he is, Adam understands that being king would shackle him more tightly than being the lowest slave. He watches birds and clouds pass by overhead as if this land surrounded by an impassable Wall is less than nothing. What is out there -- the destroying chaos they warn him about, or mysteries beyond his imagination? He runs away from kingship, and, though political potentates seek him out, he seeks the imposing shadowy presence of that final brambled cliff...

Gimel. Ur. Suoche. An unnameable desert. Shambhala. Xanadu. A boy enters manhood while exploring the world - and finally finds home among a frightening, humble people. Given the wild gift of scrying, Adam is subjugated to a mad emperor and slavers, meets the Prince of the Upper Air, runs from the Assassin's Guild, gets lost in an impassable desert, is overwhelmed by the maddening magic of the East, and finally finds his place among a people literally in the middle of nowhere. Yet even there the rising tide of, ahem, civilization - of war and commercialism and rampant greed - threatens to...

The War to End All Wars, except it is draining humanity. And the city has spiritually died. A sculptor comes home from war and dares to create a living sculpture that might yet restore hope to humanity. The city has no hope, no dreams, no vision. But Albion is inspired by the glimpsing visions he receives of the actress Argent de Resznay. But then she disappears and in her memory he begins to sculpt her back into reality. The government, meanwhile, prepares a device that will shut down the unconscious mind - and with it not only all resistance to authority, but any vestige of the creative...

Outback Australia 1954 Two rival tent boxing troupes clash over a territorial dispute in the Outback town of Birdsville. In the sweltering heat, tensions simmer, tempers flare, and as things reach boiling point, a boxing tent is burned to the ground. Fighting men know only one way to solve their disputes, and that's in the ring. The solution, a show-down, smack-down, winner take all bout between the two rival outfits. In the blue corner, representing 'Walter Wheeler's Boxing Sideshow' is Tommy King, a young aboriginal boxer with a big heart and iron fists. In the red corner, representing...

Frieda Hamel loves men. But when it comes to having relationships with them, something always goes wrong. Beginning in college, where Frieda sheds her past as an unpopular, ugly-duckling high schooler, and on into her thirties as a busy career woman, she either dates men who won't commit to her or who ask too much when they do want to get serious. When Frieda meets an exciting younger man, it could be that the things they have in common are their worst habits. Given the chance to transcend her own misanthropy to do the right thing at her workplace, Frieda's professional reputation and...

As the 20th Century draws to a close, liberal syndicated columnist Melanie Dvorak has excellent health, more money than she knows what do with, and a supportive if eccentric husband. Yet she is troubled by anxiety and worries that she is out of touch with her readership. A violent encounter at a fancy boutique in Boston's Back Bay gives her notoriety but not fame on her own terms. As her husband Simon Herbst dabbles in independent film production, Melanie explores unexpected avenues to bring her through the tumult of a new age.

Milt Erlandsen is trying to turn his life around at age 30. At work, he puts himself forward for more responsibilities. At home, his dating life goes nowhere while the ex-girlfriend of his missing roommate makes a surprising offer. Milt also gets involved in his landlord's seemingly hopeless candidacy for a seat on the city council. Milt tries his hand at media manipulation with more success than he bargained for, leading to the discovery of a dark secret in the past of the girl he loves. When things start to unravel, Milt's charismatic kid sister is there to help.