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Worlds of Hurt - Brian Hodge
Worlds of Hurt
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Demon est Deus inversus… They are the Misbegotten — once mortal men and women, from different times and different lands, who have all run afoul of a monstrous deity that remade them into undying predators. They are the creatures of our world’s darkest folklore, who hunger for flesh and blood…but... show more
Demon est Deus inversus…

They are the Misbegotten — once mortal men and women, from different times and different lands, who have all run afoul of a monstrous deity that remade them into undying predators. They are the creatures of our world’s darkest folklore, who hunger for flesh and blood…but who hunger for revenge most of all.

Beginning with his novellas for Poppy Z. Brite’s acclaimed Love In Vein anthologies, Brian Hodge has been weaving an ongoing story cycle into what’s been called “a mythos every bit as dismal and bleak as Lovecraft’s Elder Gods.”

Worlds of Hurt collects, for the first time, the first four chapters of the Misbegotten mythos into a single volume:

“The Alchemy of the Throat” — A modern-day castrato soprano becomes the latest in a line of indispensible companions to an ancient benefactor. A Bram Stoker Award finalist.

“The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins” — The immortal Sisters of the Trinity catapult an Irish stigmatic toward his destiny of being either a saint or a butcher. A World Fantasy Award finalist.

“When the Bough Doesn’t Break” — The testament of Saint Patrick the Fallen lures a pair of young seekers to rural Ireland, where an agent of divine retribution waits to be unleashed.

World of Hurt — The short novel that Rue Morgue said “makes Lovecraft’s Old Ones seem downright compassionate.”

Nearly half his life ago, Andrei spent 38 minutes as a corpse. It’s not a secret he shares with many people. Especially these last six years, ever since the comforting lie of tunnels and white lights crumbled away to leave him with the memory of what he really found on the other side of death…

Not Hell, but something worse: a Heaven unlike anything he’d ever been taught to expect.

Now, as Heaven seeks to reclaim him, Andrei awakens to the hidden truths of this world and the next, caught between two sides waging a clandestine war for the soul of the world, in which everything he’s ever taken for granted about good and evil has just been turned upside-down.

When death is no escape, what do you do? Andrei has a desperate need to know, as the clock runs out on the most excruciating moral choice of his life.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00KN6XRUQ
Publisher: DarkFuse
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
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3.0 Worlds of Hurt review
Extremely well written by a true master wordsmith, Worlds of Hurt nevertheless fell somewhat flat for me - especially through the opening three "short" tales which connect to one another in direct chronological order, and feature three characters that appear in all. In this way, Hodge develops his o...
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4.0 Worlds of Hurt by Brian Hodge
In Worlds of Hurt, Brian Hodge, horror's "green thumb", has entered the garden where the myth trees grow, and from among the roots of many legends, he has cultivated his own tree, one that has borne very strange fruit...the Misbegotten Mythos.Woven into the history of our world, these collected tale...
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4.0 World of Hurt
***Review for Worlds of Hurt*** Contains 3 Misbegotten Mythos short stories and the novella "World of Hurt""The Alchemy of the Throat""The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins""When the Bough Doesn't Break""World of Hurt"This is a dark, dense read with some heavy concepts. This one gets pretty deep. And H...
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