Join
the doomed on their vision quests in eleven stories by the damnedest
writers in Perdition: Janet Morris; A.L. Butcher; Joe Bonadonna;
Andrew P. Weston; Gustavo Bondoni; Seth Lindberg; Tom Barczak;
Michael H. Hanson; Louis Antonelli; Christopher Crosby Morris.
Mystics
in Hell is the latest volume in the notorious Heroes in Hell series
of anthologies and novels created by Janet Morris.
A Frame of Mind by Janet Morris & Chris Morris
Kit Marlowe treks back from exile, where he has encountered three
witches. Carrying a skull which he found on a blasted heath, he
arrives at the Globe, where Satan and the angel of death accost him.
At their displeasure, he’s banished once more, this time to return
instantly via the powers of the Fates. Satan meets him at a cast
party and decrees that Kit not only will spy for him, but play
Banquo, beheaded in each subsequent performance of Macbeth.
The Come Right Inn by Andrew P. Weston
Where we meet up with one of Satan’s most secretive agents. A
charming woman with a finger—and most other body parts—in every
pie. She’s bewitching, beguiling, and bedeviled to be sure, but
won’t think twice about skinning you alive if you cross her.
Abode of Woe by A.L. Butcher
When the self-proclaimed anti-messiah builds a temple on their
doorstep and ruins business, Calchas and Cassandra look to some
devious means to bring down the walls. Dueling mystics and
misinformation bring mayhem to the underworld.
Fool’s Gold by S.E. Lindberg
A tale of the Egyptian god of mysticism, Thoth, who seeks
conspirators to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone; with it, Thoth
could usurp Satan’s control of the realm of Duat. Taking up the
charge is Howard Carter, infamous antiquarian and tomb raider, and
the disgraced evolutionist Ernst Haeckel. They discover that King
Midas’s alchemical ability to transmute flesh into gold relies on
the stolen stone, and Midas is producing Hell’s new
gastro-currency: buttcoin. They infiltrate the Mortuary Mint and
sabotage the currency’s production. Instead of returning the stone
to Thoth, the duo uses it to build up their own fortune. The auditors
of Hell, namely the First and Second of the Sibitti, police the
matter.
The True Believer by Lou Antonelli
Few national leaders of the 20th century had as much of a negative
and controversial impact on history as Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd,
prime minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966, when he was
assassinated. Commonly referred to in South Africa as “Dr.”
Verwoerd, he had a PhD in psychology, and went down in history as The
Man Who Invented Apartheid. Now in Hell, Dr. Verwoerd refuses to
acknowledge his infernal fate and gets a special visit to set him
straight.
By Any Means Necessary by Gustavo Bondoni
Umberto Eco knows he’s in Hell; the suffering and multiple
deaths that never kill him permanently are more than enough of a clue
for a man of his learning. But when he gets forcibly recruited
by Nazi Commando Otto Skorzeny to prove the theories of one of
history’s greatest charlatans, he thinks things can’t get any
worse. He’s wrong. Hell can always get worse.
Excalibur by Tom Barczak
When dealing with the harsh reality of the Afterlife: Hell can be
hard. But Rasputin has something even harder, and Lafayette Ronald
Hubbard desperately needs it if he is going to pull off the greatest
magic trick Hell has ever known.
On The Run by Michael H. Hanson
Tells of Sufi mystic Rumi, Zen Buddhist Dōgen, and Charlatan
Spiritualist Mina Crandon using their new-found magics on the
grandest of all quests, to find powerful talismans that will allow
them to escape Hell itself.
The Sorcerous Apprentice by Andrew P. Weston
Daemon Grim learns new tricks from an old dog. And just as well.
There’s a fallen saint to bring to heel, and she’s not known for
playing ball . . . crystal or otherwise.
The Colossus of Hell by Joe Bonadonna
Doctor Victor Frankenstein and computer scientist Alan Turing want
to build a cyborg. Quasimodo wants to win the hand of the French
fortune teller, Marie Anne Lenormand. Rasputin and Cagliostro want to
open an exclusive, private club. And a mysterious damned soul, known
only as the Orange Ogre, wants revenge against anyone in Hell who
ever cheated or betrayed him, laughed at and humiliated him, or even
ignored him—especially His Satanic Majesty himself.
Strange Arts by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
In a Tower cell, Marlowe’s head struggles to regain
consciousness and rejoin his body. Here he finds his Elizabethan
spymaster, Walsingham, waiting with J the Merciful and three
mysterious Sisters. After painfully stitching together his body and
soul, the five entreat him to join their most secret conspiracy.
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British-born A. L.
Butcher is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet, and a
dreamer, a lover of science, natural history, history, and monkeys.
Her prose has been described as ‘dark and gritty’ and her poetry
as ‘evocative’. She writes with a sure and sometimes erotic
sensibility of things that might have been, never were, but could be.
Alex is the author
of the Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles and the
Tales of Erana lyrical fantasy series. She
also has several short stories in the fantasy, fantasy romance genres
with occasional forays into gothic style horror, including the Legacy
of the Mask series. With a background in politics, classical
studies, ancient history and myth, her affinities bring an eclectic
and unique flavour in her work, mixing reality and dream in
alchemical proportions that bring her characters and worlds to life.
She also curates
speculative fiction themed book bundles on Pubshare – for the most
part – the Here
Be Series
Alex is also proud to
be a writer for Perseid Press where her work features in Heroika:
Dragon Eaters, Heroika Skirmishers – where
she was editor and cover designer as well as writer – as well as
Lovers
in Hell and
Mystics in Hell
– part of the acclaimed Heroes in Hell series.
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