A WORLD IN FLAMES . . . The cosmic balance between Light and Night has somehow been upset, causing a sudden, inexplicable escalation of old hatreds between humans and Starborns - bringing the two races into brutal, bloody conflict that can only end in complete annihilation. When Albaric's son is murdered, he turns to the forbidden rites of necromancy to reanimate the boy. The attempt creates an al'ghirol, an alien spirit incarnated in the living-dead body of the wizard's son. The monster is eerily knowledgeable about Albaric's past - and his future. Horrified, Tierny casts out her husband....

ADRIFT IN A HELLISH SEA OF SOULS . . . When a magical experiment goes disastrously wrong, it precipitates the final confrontation between Albaric Corwen and Urzoth, Lord of Demons. Before the final battle, Albaric must undertake an infernal odyssey across the terrible landscape of Sargothrond, black island of eternal terror in the sea of souls. There the spawn of the dark goddess Night inflict unending torments on the damned. Fighting demons of terrible beauty and danger, unexpectedly meeting an old love and discovering the ironies of true damnation, Albaric ultimately finds himself embroiled...

THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT contains nine new tales from the world of the Wizard of Earth's End, featuring further adventures of Albaric and Tierny, Cranley and Nefedius, and Melvale of Ethior. You'll meet: The obsessed alchemist whose dead love he must resurrect - at any cost. The sly demon who makes life hell for an unwitting sorcerer's apprentice when he seeks his freedom. The invincible champion who learns the price of fear. The lethal snow-white city where bloody footprints walk by themselves, placed by no living feet. The heavenly dancer transformed into a hungry horror from hell. The lost,...

A WARRIOR-WOMAN'S DARK PAST . . . Born to luxury and idleness, Seralya Torrell is torn from her safe and comfortable life by a horrific family betrayal. Enslaved in a harem and framed for the murder of her lover, Seralya fights her way to freedom - only to find herself lost in the vicious streets of the criminal quarter, where Seralya has a temptingly high price on her head. Seralya survives these dangers by reinventing herself as a streetwise, glamorous thief and warrior, whose motto, "Never start a fight, but always finish it," becomes a byword of terror to the skulking predators of her...

APPARITIONS AND OTHER DARK DOINGS features two new novellas about Albaric Corwen, Tierny, and Rutha Khan; plus a complete word chapter deleted from QUEST FOR THE HYDRA, presented as a stand-alone story; and a new novella in Melvale's saga. In APPARITIONS, Albaric and Tierny must somehow defeat a hideously personal haunting when the tortured ghosts of Rutha's past arise to wreak their horrifying vengeance on her - and on all who love her. On a treasure hunt, Tierny learns the bitter ramifications of trust and treachery, and love and lechery, when she seeks THE CAVE OF MICTLANTELATHRI. Filled...

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THING, OR, FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE PHOTON TORPEDOES: (NEWLY REVISED AND SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED FROM THE SOLD-OUT SCARLET SUCCUBUS PRESS LIMITED EDITION ) "The ultimate space opera spoof " - Locus on Fantasy What is the mysterious Fellowship of the Thing? It's the wildest mash-up you'll ever read. Ever wonder what might happen if Conan the Cimmerian and James Bond were forced to share a mission? Bring together an obstinate organist, a cynical spy, a worried wizard, telepathic twins, an inquisitive anthropoid, an alluring actress and a bean-eating barbarian. Weld...

LOST IN THE SHADOWS WHERE LUST MINGLES WITH LUNACY . . . Ancient legends whisper of the demonic strigoi, a Bloodthirsty creature that once plagued the earth. For centuries, the last of the strigoi race was confined to a hellish limbo - until master occultist Aleister Crowley called her forth to stalk the living once more. On the eve of her greatest triumph, the strigoi was banished again to the dark hell of the Void, taking her enslaved priest-magician with her. Decades later, neurotic actor Miles Mackenzie finds the spell to summon the strigoi. He only wanted an authentic-sounding...

When a covert government agency enlists a vampire as an operative, they gain more than a star agent. They also inherit her centuries-old feud with Charles Oliver Haddon, an immortal sorcerer who is currently behind a sinister plot to replace all government figures in America with demonic impersonators. And that's just the opening gambit in a global game that could plunge the world into a worse Hell than Dante dared imagine. But the Wanderer, as she's known in the Agency, is no run-of-the-mill vampire. She absorbs her prey, body and soul. This enables her to assume her victims' identities at...

HORROR WAITS IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TREES . . . Huddled deep in the primeval Maine forest, the sleepy village of Foxblood Falls has a dark secret. Zacharias Corbitt, one of its founders, kidnapped young women he fancied and offered them up as blood sacrifices to the dread goddess the local Indians called She-Who-Walks-in-Thunder - a malign entity known by an older and more terrible name in the fiendish Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred. Caught in the act during his latest sacrifice, Corbitt was lynched and his body secretly buried. But he was a far-seeing man, and he had made plans for his...

"Asleep in your bed or running in the street, Wherever you are, you're the Bogeyman's meat " Welcome to Fenwood, the centuries-old city haunted by America's most nightmarish serial killer. For almost twenty years, the Bogeyman has been snatching children from playgrounds, schoolyards, even their own bedrooms - and the police have been unable to track him down, thanks to the Bogeyman's clever manipulation of police and FBI computers. For the Bogeyman is more than a compulsive killer - he's also a brilliant computer hacker. Over the years, the Bogeyman has worn a variety of benevolent masks,...