During and after the great depression they were traded for food, sex, shelter, and power. Twenty of the seemingly ordinary nickles carved with dark representations of world evils and imbued with magical powers that transformed the deliciously macabre bits of lost art into carriers of death, destruction, and ill luck. Where these coins go, so does his will. Each coin is imbued with his malice and a desire for destruction. With each life ruined... the Carver's life goes on. Seventeen stories tell the tale of the Carver's legacy: coins designed for beauty morphed into catalysts of pain.
Kuklos looks at a diranged killer, a killer who hears voices commanding him to do Gods work and eliminate bad people within the community, this well liked individual manipulates five of his students in order to carry out what he believes is Gods commands. As the killings multiply so does the fear within the small New England community intensifies until the final and explosive ending.
A biblical betrayal drives this trilogy from the World Fantasy Award–winning author, “a singular American fabulist” (William Gibson, author of Neuromancer). The price of immortality . . . Two thousand years ago, there lived a man who sold some valuable information for a fee of thirty silver coins. His name was Judas Iscariot, and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still exist—and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them . . . Like Andrew Vanbergen, whose attempts at innkeeping bring in stranger business than he ever expected. And Aunt Naomi, whose most prized family heirloom is a silver spoon—with a curiously ancient-looking engraving. And especially old Mr. Pennyman, who is only five silver coins short of immortality . . . “The Last Coin should confirm Blaylock’s position as a trendsetter, breaking new ground rather than just exploring the old.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Against a lyric vision of the Southern California coast, cosmic conspiracy theories bump heads in a gleeful farce to produce another strange and wonderful book from the idiosyncratic author of Homunculus and Land of Dreams.” —Publishers Weekly “Weird and wonderful touches abound; Blaylock makes good use of his coastal setting, extracting his own brand of magic from familiar places and familiar things. While Biblical conspiracies and revisionist scriptures are all the rage now, Blaylock got the jump on the current crop by several years.” —SFF Chronicles
Four entertaining short stories that show you that anything can happen to a person when in the right place at an unfortunate time. The Tooth Fairy brings an unpleasant surprise to an egotistical, overbearing and selfish company manager. The Helping Hand Company reorganizes an unfaithful and incompetent business owner’s company and life. The Devil Coin is found long after Confucius’ time and inflicts a historical disaster on a metropolitan city. The Handy Man shows a person had better shape up before he is no longer able to change his life or his actions. Something may happen to keep him from doing anything later in life. The author is a retired insurance agent and adjunct professor of Sociology, Psychology, Speech, and Marriage and Family at a local Junior College in Wichita, Kansas.
Demons are created by a mind at war with itself... The demons on Earth are influencing humanity’s path far too much, and devils are finding doorways to the realm that did not exist before. Only a demon created in Heaven and forged in the fires of Hell can make a difference when Heaven and Earth begin to bleed into each other. Only a demon with the power of an angel and the heart of a devil can find a way to drive the devils back to Hell and keep all those demons in check. But why would he want to? God’s back turned on Roche a long time ago. The one most dear to him is by definition his greatest enemy. Roche has no place in Heaven, no friends in Hell, and no fun on Earth. The more his soul descends into darkness, the more he is convinced that reality itself is fundamentally flawed. He must find a way to understand his own existence and reconcile it in a way he can accept. Otherwise, he will have to end all the worlds. The Demon Be Damned is a prequel to the story told in the Walking Between Worlds trilogy. The only witness there from the start is the original demon Roche. His tale goes back, way back…and we have to trace it to the very beginning to see just how vital his role has been in the continued existence of humanity. Recommended reading order Walking Between Worlds: Demons & Angels Rise of the Walker King Fall of the Walker King Before Walking Between Worlds: The Demon Be Damned The Heart of the Dragon (release date TBA)
