City Infernal

WELCOME TO THE MEPHISTOPOLIS Hell is a city.It stretches, literally, without end–a labyrinth of smoke and waking nightmare. Just as endlessly, sewer grates belch flame from the sulphur fires that have raged beneath the streets for millennia. Clock towers spire in every district, by public law, but their faces have no hands; time is not measured here in seconds or hours but in atrocity and despair. In the center of this morass of stone and smoke and butchery and horror stands the 666-floor Mephisto Building, where Gargoyles prowl the wind-blown ledges and from whose highest garrets the innocent are hung from gibbets and left to rot for eons. The lone occupant of the very top floor looks down upon his dominion and smiles a smile that is brighter than a thousand suns. Here, yes, everyone is dead yet everyone lives forever.Welcome to the Mephistopolis.Welcome to the city of Hell.Welcome.

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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