Der Tag nach dem Jüngsten Gericht
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783453302853 (3453302850)
Publish date: September 1974
Publisher: Heyne Verlag
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: After Such Knowledge (#3)
This is a sequel to the novella Black Easter, and to me was an anti-climax. What Stoker's Dracula and King's Salem's Lot is to vampires, Black Easter is to demons. Blish said in his Author's Note to that first novel that every one of the "novels, poems and plays about magic and witchcraft" he's read...
The sequel to Black Easter, but not as good. As usual, though, a very memorable ending.So, in Black Easter, an insane arms dealer pays a black magician to release all the demons of Hell for one night. This leads to Armageddon: at the end of the book, the Devil materializes in person and tells his ho...