City Infernal

Includes a new, previously unpublished short story — "A Very Bad Day in Hell"Hell is a city. Forget the old-fashioned sulphurous pit you may have read about. Over the millennia, Hell has evolved into a bustling metropolis with looming skyscrapers, crowded streets, systemized evil, and atrocity as the status quo.Cassie thought she knew all about Hell. But when her twin sister, Lissa, committed suicide, Cassie found that she was able to travel to the real thing—the city itself. Now, even though she's still alive, Cassie is heading straight to Hell to find Lissa. And the sights she sees as she walks among the damned will never be in any tourist guidebook.

From the Publisher

Edward Lee offers a very new look at the very old concept of Hell. An occult fluke grants lonely Goth girl Cassie the harrowing ability to enter Hell as a living person. But to her surprise, the Abyss is not the barren fire-and-brimstone landscape she expects. It’s a ghastly metropolis fueled by pure evil, where sorcery replaces science and sheer horror reigns over a population of fallen angels, demons, crossbreeds, and the human damned.

From the Back Cover

LET EDWARD LEE TAKE YOUR ON A TOUR...OF HELL! Hell is a city. It s called the Mephistopolis. Forget the old-fashioned sulphur pit you may have read about. Over the millennia, Hell has evolved into a bustling metropolis with looming skyscrapers, crowded streets, systemitized evil, and atrocity as status quo. Cassie thought she knew all about Hell. But when her twin sister, Lissa, committed suicide, Cassie found that she was able to travel to the real thing the city itself. Now, even though she s still alive, Cassie is heading straight to Hell to find Lissa. And the sights she sees as she walks among the damned will never be in any tourist book. WELCOME TO HELL.

About the Author

Edward Lee has had over twenty-seven books published in the horror and suspense field, including FLESH GOTHIC, MESSENGER and CITY INFERNAL. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2000, Pocket’s HOT BLOOD series, and the award-wining 999. Several of his novels have recently sold translation rights to Germany and Spain. His movie, HEADER, was filmed in late-2003 and awaits release. Meanwhile, CITY INFERNAL, MESSENGER, and FAMILY TRADITION have been optioned for film. Lee lives on Florida’s St. Pete Beach.

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