Eight friends gather for a reunion vacation, but go missing after a hurricane strikes along their plane’s flight path. While friends and family mourn their loss when the crashed plane is found, the impossible happens: they appear in public claiming to have been in a cave in the mountains. Missing for months, they have no memory of the interval. What . . .
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Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
The world is exactly as you know it. No, really it is. Except that your landlord might be a spirit, the tree outside your window may be a nymph, that flash in the sky wasn’t a trick of the light and that guy in the suit might just not be a bored lawyer on his lunch break. . . .
Nyx is an Ailuran, a feline shapeshifter, who chooses to live on the outskirts of life. Elmiryn is an unconventional warrior who seeks revenge. Both are cursed. When circumstance places them together to fight an enemy whose very existence is in question, they find uncommon allies, life-threatening adventures, and cerebral danger waiting. In a world where gods, magic, and . . .
“Universal Warrior” tells the story of an ongoing war between Heaven and Hell, one that will eventually result in the end of our world. . . .
Astrid Fray is a perfectly normal teenager, except for the fact that she’s also a demon. Coming into her full powers at the age of seventeen has presented many problems, not the least of which is the inability to kiss her long time crush Logan without feeding on his soul, and being taken away from her family by Farron, a . . .
Gracey Daylittle is an empathic pie maker with a unique kind of magic. Ever since she and her sister found the Prime of Darkness lying unconscious on the side of the road, their lives —and their town— haven’t been the same. Marco Flores is an eight year old with a curious menagerie of friends and an eerie connection to . . .
Eight friends gather for a reunion vacation, but go missing after a hurricane strikes along their plane’s flight path. While friends and family mourn their loss when the crashed plane is found, the impossible happens: they appear in public claiming to have been in a cave in the mountains. Missing for months, they have no memory of the interval. What . . .
A tale of the undead and the undying, elves and men; demons and saints. One wizard, his apprentice, a lord and their entourage are pursued by pirates, thrown astray in a storm and shipwrecked on a haunted isle. And if that were not enough, if they survive the secrets they take away from that accursed place may be enough to . . .
Amber McKenzie considers herself a normal, if somewhat bland-looking college student. Then one morning, she feels the touch of something cold and evil, something she can’t see or explain. Amber barely has time to reflect on it before she attacked in the bathroom by her best friend. She comes home and finds her family slaughtered, forcing her to rely . . .
The artist Everet Lapel’s novel is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of surrealist painting. Everet just may have “invented a new style and a new kind of fiction blog . . . his sentences allow a cinematic freedom of narration . . . his language is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality.” . . .
In the history of demonology. There is one crime that trumps all others. That crime is deliberately torturing people to form a demon. These demons are called retained demons and they are very dangerous; they need to be dealt with decisively, and preferably from a very long distance away. Dealing with retained demons is a job for highly trained . . .
This is a difficult story for me to formulate my thoughts on. Why?
No Man An Island boggles my mind. It’s such a complex story, a psychological fun house maze through time and reality. How can I describe it, how can I try to summarize it without tangling myself up trying [more . . .]
Opener: Funny. No more really need be said. I mean sure you have your romance and your supernatural but what really stands out for me is the humour. I love two of the three characters with steady point of views. Briar and Lilith. You’ve got a snarky, lazy and all around hilarious spellcaster with a rather unhealthy like of getting [more . . .]