Demon est Deus inversus
They are the Misbegotten
once mortal men and women, from different times and different lands, who have
all run afoul of a monstrous deity that remade them into undying predators.
They are the creatures of our worlds darkest folklore, who hunger for flesh
and blood but who hunger for revenge most of all.
Beginning with his
novellas for Poppy Z. Brites acclaimed Love
In Vein anthologies, Brian Hodge has been weaving an ongoing story cycle
into whats been called a mythos every bit as dismal and bleak as Lovecrafts
Elder Gods.
Worlds of Hurt collects, for the first time, the first four chapters of the Misbegotten
mythos into a single volume:
The Alchemy of the
Throat A modern-day castrato soprano becomes the latest in a line of
indispensible companions to an ancient benefactor. Bram Stoker Award finalist.
The Dripping of Sundered
Wineskins The immortal Sisters of the Trinity catapult an Irish stigmatic
toward his destiny of being either a saint or a butcher. World Fantasy Award
finalist.
When the Bough Doesnt
Break The testament of Saint Patrick the Fallen lures a pair of young
seekers to rural Ireland, where an agent of divine retribution waits to be
unleashed.
World of Hurt The short novel that Rue
Morgue said makes Lovecrafts Old Ones seem downright compassionate.
Nearly half his life ago,
Andrei spent 38 minutes as a corpse. Its not a secret he shares with many
people. Especially these last six years, ever since the comforting lie of
tunnels and white lights crumbled away to leave him with the memory of what he really found on the other side of death
Not Hell, but something
worse: a Heaven unlike anything hed ever been taught to expect.
Now, as Heaven seeks to
reclaim him, Andrei awakens to the hidden truths of this world and the next,
caught between two sides waging a clandestine war for the soul of the world, in
which everything hes ever taken for granted about good and evil has just been
turned upside-down.
When death is no escape,
what do you do? Andrei has a desperate need to know, as the clock runs out on
the most excruciating moral choice of his life.