F - 2924 | The Romanov Cross by Robert Masello

Nearly one hundred years ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore on a desolate arctic island, carrying a terrible secret and a mysterious, emerald-encrusted cross.

A century later, acts of man, nature, and history converge on that same forbidding shore with a power sufficient to shatter civilization as we know it.

Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted, Slater is offered a job no one else wants—to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918.

Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so, ensure that it doesn’t come back to life.

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F - 2923 | Private Demons by Robert Masello

Everyone hides a secret from the past . . . but Lucien’s secret is inescapable. A living thing that has followed him across the world, from the horrors of Southeast Asia to the penthouse suites of the rich and famous.
Everyone craves money, power, and sex . . . but Lucien can satisfy his every urge, every decadent impulse, every erotic whim—for a price.
Everyone has private demons . . . but Lucien’s demon is all too real.
All too powerful.
All too hungry . . . for human souls.

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N - 264 | Fallen Angels . . . and Spirits of the Dark by Robert Masello

“My name is Legion: for we are many.” —Mark 5:9

They have been with us since the beginning of time. Walking the centuries in our myths, our art, our literature . . . and in our dreams.
Victims of temptation and sin, they are spirits who fell from heaven’s grace, emerging anew as servants of darkness.

Here, in one spellbinding volume, are the most infamous denizens of the Underworld—from Lucifer, the first angel who challenged God’s will, to the fathomless legions of demons and fiends who haunt us to this day. Explore their world, hear their stories, unravel their secrets, and discover for yourself that even angels can have a dark side . . .

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PN - 994 | The Spirit Wood by Robert Masello

It was sublime, erotic evil. It was the call of his own blood . . .

When Peter Constantine inherited a vast, remote estate, his life began to change. Free at last from money worries, Peter and his wife, Meg, could relax—and Peter could explore his new, mysterious home. From the thick woods, the winding trails, the bizarre, sensual sculpture, came a pulsing, ancient call that stirred his very soul.

Then he heard the music and saw the beautiful woman who beckoned him into the wood . . .

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PN - 993 | Vigil by Robert Masello

In the caves beneath an Italian lake, the fossil of a creature older than the earth has been disinterred.

In the Judaean desert, a legendary parchment has been discovered.

One reveals the secrets of Heaven. One foretells an impending Hell.

And deciphering their message has been left to paleontologist Carter Cox--a man of science whose faith in the empirical is about to be shaken by forces of evil beyond imagining.

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PN - 992 | Bestiary by Robert Masello

A manuscript illuminated with fantastical creatures said to have roamed the Garden of Eden, the bestiary has been handed down throughout the centuries by one of the Arab world's most prominent families.

Commissioned to restore it is the beautiful young art curator, Beth Cox.

But it is Beth's husband, Carter-a paleontologist making his own dire discoveries in Los Angeles's famed La Brea Tar Pits-who will be led by the bestiary into a living, breathing menagerie of wonders-and horrors.

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N - 263 | Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts - and Those Who Dared to Practice Them by Robert Masello

Here, in one spellbinding volume, is a history of the major occult arts as they have been practiced from ancient Babylon to the present day.

Raising Hell weaves history with myths, quotes, anecdotes, and illustrations, to provide a vivid chronicle of the evolution of the occult arts.

This definitive source offers a compelling look at the black arts and those who risked their lives to explore them.

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PN - 991 | Black Horizon by Robert Masello

The gates between life and death have been opened.

Musician Jack Logan holds the key. In the streets of New York he brought a man back from the dead – in plain and shocking sight of a TV news camera crew. Now the whole world is aware of his miraculous power. The media wants to expose him, the scientists to exploit him.

But worst of all, the tortured souls of the dead – including his own mother – are reaching out from the void ...

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