Amanda Downum Knihy

With her master dead and her oaths foresworn, necromancer and spy Isyllt Iskaldur finds herself in exile. Hounded by assassins, she seeks asylum in Assar, the empire she so recently worked to undermine. Warlords threaten the empire's fragile peace, and the empress is beset by enemies within the court. Even worse, darkness stirs in the deep desert. Ancient spirits long held captive are waking - spirits that can destroy Assar faster than any army. Accompanied by an outcast jinn, Isyllt must travel into the heart of the desert to lay the darkness there to rest once more. But her sympathies are torn between the captive spirits and the order of mages sworn to bind them. And whichever choice she makes could raze the empire to dust.

The bold investigators of Arkham Horror are humanity's best hope against monstrous terrors from beyond the void, in this second collection of extraordinary eldritch novellas

The first installment of a gripping adventure filled with political intrigue, espionage, and assassins.

When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's life - in her dreams he drowns. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the daylight world: to rescue Blake she must brave the darkest depths of the Dreamlands. Even the attempt could kill her, or leave her mind trapped or broken. And if she succeeds, she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of becoming forever.

Die Ermittler von Arkham Horror sind in dieser zweiten Novellen-Sammlung die einzige Hoffnung der Menschheit gegen monströse Schrecken aus der Leere. Enthält drei herrlich schaurige Abenteuer: - Eine Behandlung gegen die schrecklichen Albträume einer Patientin durch die Psychologin Carolyn Fern reißt ein Tor zu den Traumlanden und den Alten Göttern auf. - Die geheimnisvollen Bücher der Miskatonic University sind eine unwiderstehliche Verlockung für den Bühnenmagier Dexter Drake und seine Assistentin Molly Maxwel. Doch schon bald fallen sie dunklen Mächten zum Opfer. - Als die Autorin Gloria Goldberg Arkham besucht, um den unvollendeten Roman ihres Schriftstellerkollegen fertig zu schreiben, entweichen seine Worte von den Seiten und beginnen Arkham zu verwandeln. Außerdem gibt es die Origin-Geschichten der Ermittler aus den Tiefen des Arkham Horror-Archivs. Der edle Schuber enthält zusätzlich zum Hardcoverband noch drei exklusive „ARKHAM HORROR: Das Kartenspiel“-Erweiterungspacks mit je fünf Spielkarten.