Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Occult & Supernatural

Catherine has left her career and friends to accompany her artist husband to Egypt, but his work engrosses him, leaving her rootless and lonely in the mystifying city of Cairo. A chance encounter with a stranger plunges her into a dangerous affair. Passion wars with terror when the man who loves her intensely and tenderly claims his love will kill her.

Mark Samuels--"the contemporary British master of visionary weirdness," as Ramsey Campbell has called him--stands at the forefront of 21st century Horror, combining an unparalleled understanding of the Weird Fiction tradition with his own modern take on cosmic dread. An acknowledged influence on numerous writers in the field, his stories depict the isolation and despair of urban life giving way to vistas of universal alienation and, on occasion, spiritual transcendence.

Now, in this collection of original works inspired by Samuels'writing, his characteristic themes are extended...

He wakes in a cemetery in front of a white marble gravestone that marks his resting place for the past three centuries. Although the letters are faded, he adopts the name Pilatus from the weathered stone facade. He realizes he is dead-alive and embraces the newfound power his undead existence allows. The consumption of blood increases his strength, and so, he is the first of his kind: vampire.

He soon begins to question: Who was I before I awakened to become this creature? Who made me and why? So begins a two thousand year journey in Pilatus's search for truth, fueled by horrific...

Platitude is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains right in the middle of nowhere. Lightning bugs tease the children on long summer nights, the sweet scent of lavender fills the spring air, and demons swarm the town, blocking out the sun. Their goal is to ensure an entire generation is lost to the lies of darkness.
Aegeus, a warrior of the King, has been assigned to lead a team of angels to Platitude. But this mission is unlike any mission they have ever undertaken. Each of the twelve humans carries burdens deep within their souls, and one of them is rumored to be a...