Many modern games started as rituals. In the salons of Paris, France during the sixteen and seventeen hundreds these rituals were used to commune with the spirit world. Several hundred years earlier Alchemists and Wizards used these same rituals to summon demons. But a game is just a game. Or is it? For those who study such things there is a warning, a child's rhyme from Mother Goose's darker nursery. Thirteen to summon the beast, and thirteen to bind it Thirteen will seek the beast, but only one will find it. For the ignorant? Well, there are fates worse than death.
The vast Union of Arcana has expanded its wealth and power by laying claim to one uninhabited planet after another through the portals linking parallel universes, until they discover a new portal that leads to another human society, Sharona ...
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... hearing jazz at the nowclosed Hawk's Nest rings true too. But Voort declines the invitation again. “We'd planned a few days alone.” The doctor's smile conveys a masculine appreciation of romantic privacy. He bows and walks off, ...
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Full of action, double-crossing, and high-stakes mob warfare, Richard E. Crabbe's Hell's Gate brings readers to the rough-and-tumble streets of historic Manhattan, all set against the vivid backdrop of the greatest tragedy to strike New ...
The ubiquity of images and visual information that marks our contemporary experience is hardly a revelation.
Some say that Henrick is the gateway to hell. We have more witches, warlocks, and Satan worshippers here than in any other city or town in the country. “The warehouse I mentioned is their church. That's where they offer sacrifices to ...
Of course they'd heard of him; he knew it. Every saddle tramp, bummer, murderer, noaccount on the frontier had heard of him, he reminded himself. Wasn't it his name and reputation alone that had gotten him and Simon here to Hell's Gate?
I didnot say a word as I wanted the Angel to come up with the details of Hell's Gate. He held me by the hand and began to speak in a language I did not understand. Maybe Ineeded Pastor Chris to interpret the meaningfor me but I was in ...
This is for you, those who have truly been...At Hell's Gates. Short Stories from seventeen of your favorite authors, and set in the worlds you know!