As the year draws to a close, a mysterious stranger makes a proposition to club owner Warren Charlton. It's a deal involving a brand new drug. The good news: the drug is free. The bad news: it comes at a heavy price... promising much but delivering far more. Euphoria and ecstasy. Death and depravity. One big night. One new pill. It all awaits those who try Pandemonium. ***Contains bonus short story 'Reasons to Kill'***
In the 1950s, ordinary people of varying ages and backgrounds are possessed by entities that seem to spring from the collective unconscious, that many would call demons.
Fresh from winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Max Gladstone weaves elements of American myth—the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy—into Last Exit, a deeply emotional tale where his characters must find their own truths ...
Seifer Tombchewer, a peasant boy living in the macabre Darkling Realm, proves his worth when he is forced to impersonate the missing Prince Talon Pandemonium as diplomat, warrior, and Lord Defender of the Realm.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.
A ruthless Russian tycoon lures biologists Nell and Geoffrey to his underground metropolis, where they are confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors that are rising up to consume the world.
This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.
"A truly bizarre and sometimes filthy historical canter through abatoirs, satyriasis and Noel Edmonds' House Party, among other things, towards a theory of organisation' - The Times 'The author pursues a vigorous polemic on organisational ...
I rolled out my dream: Pandemonium has a conservation plan called ARC—Avian Recovery for Conservation—that just might save the birds and the knowledge to raise more of them. If, that is, we can raise the money to fund it.
Pandemonium possesses every quality you want in a great novel, and the good news is it’s only his debut.” –Charles Coleman Finlay, Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author of The Prodigal Troll
The crowds within the Pandemonium Bar & Grill were electrified. Already nearly vibrating the stalactites loose from Hell's very roof for the various bar-bands, the massed hellions set up a throatful cry that surely reverberated in all ...