Showing results for "Earth" in Occult

Sakima, New York, a sleepy, idyllic city nestled in the Hudson Valley, a place where everyone knows each other, families look after the highly prized community garden, and the crime rate is so low that Dr. Laura Powell, the police department’s medical examiner, spends most of her time tending to her own private medical practice. That changes drastically the day a local high school student is found dead, an apparent suicide. Called in to perform the autopsy, Laura uncovers a strange growth inside the body that leads to a horrifying discovery.

First published in 1895, this work has survived as a cult book. It starts with an occult student who is surprised by a ghostly, uninvited guest, who came to unveil his past as a member of a secret society which he betrayed; his punishment for this? A journey inside the hollow earth, to slowly abandon his humanity and to be a keeper of knowledge and something else.

Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the ultra-luxury development her company is building, a symbol of the dawn of a brighter Lagos. But Yosoye’s idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her.

Four years have passed since Evelyn Figueroa and Aleksandr Sokolovsky were able to achieve the impossible and escape the Furies. Physically and emotionally scarred, the duo has been able to enjoy a peaceful reprieve from the deadly monsters that tormented them. But the Furies have returned, and they’ve changed the rules of the game. Not only are Evelyn and Aleksandr fighting for their own lives, but even their loved ones are being hunted. Determined to secure their freedom, they come up with a dangerous plan - find whoever started the curse and end it by any means necessary.

In 1988, young American traveler Quincy Redding is trekking across the misty terrain of the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands. She is destined for the infamous peak Ben MacDui, where she soon finds herself debilitated and at the mercy of a malevolent entity. A darkly imaginative and harrowing tale, Prince of Earth spans 20 years, alternately following Quincy in her 1988 ordeal in Scotland as well as Quincy in 2008, when, as an adult, she begins experiencing strangeness that threatens her family and her life.

Book two in the Sine Curve of Aeons trilogy reminds us that love transcends time and space, life and death, aeons and civilizations while humanity attempts the same. But Dante doesn't give a f--k about any of that—he's just trying to survive being awake in a world of sleepers as he navigates the chaos of the modern world while ancient foes plot in darkness for aeons, following the sine-curve path of humanity's progression, plotting intimately deceitful and perfected plots to ensnare all but the most vigilant.

The battle for Templar has only just begun. The city is under attack by a mysterious woman in a purple cloak who wields an extraordinary elemental power: Every few hours, a sustained lighting column strikes the city, slowly draining the lives of everyone it touches with its deadly, crackling energy bolts.

The deadliest fiction ever written about worldwide annihilation of billions of people on the sidelines - with no helmets, pads, or spiritual defense against the Red Dragon. In the future, weather will destroy the world. It will not be manmade. It will come from the Wrath of God.

When Dan's friend asks for his help in rescuing his fiance from evil kidnappers, little does he know that he’ll be sucked into a sinister world of vampires, cannibalism, and human trafficking. Captured by the vampires, Dan is crushed and beaten as he's forced to entertain them with a mock martial arts battle between him and an egotistical grandson of Dracula.