Download or read book Demons of the Blood Moon written by Joshua Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your freedom worth?Would you join the rebellion?Would you fight for the devil?Would you kill a god?In a world of gods and demons. Mortals have been segregated into those that can use magic and those that cannot.The elite, those that can use magic live a life of luxury and gluttony.The cursed, those that cannot use magic force themselves into slavery to cleanse their blood lines of an ancient curse in the eyes of their gods, the Valkyrie.When whispers of the devil forming a rebellion begin to surface. Four young cursed gang members must choose between slaving for their gods or fighting back with the rebellion to claim a better life.When the truth of the world is slowly forced into the light it becomes clear there is far more evil in the world than could ever be imagined.

Download or read book Blood Beast written by Darren Shan and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Locked inside Dervish's study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that's fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I'm in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don't know..." Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole. He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?

Download or read book Blood be Damned written by Kel Carpenter and published by Kel Carpenter. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Underworld burned, I thought that was the end. Turns out it was only the beginning. Lucifer’s death was a shot heard around the world. The sudden loss of magic turned the tides for the first time in over two decades. The humans are rallying. Rioting. It feels like the stirrings of war. As if that wasn’t enough, Bree isn’t the sister I remember—and her desire to return to Hell is creating more fires than I know how to put out. Things are changing. Lines are drawn. Everyone must choose a side. Even me. Sometimes the world needs a hero. In a city that’s already gone to hell in a hand basket, it might just need a demon. Note: Blood be Damned is book 3 of 4 in the COMPLETE Demons of New Chicago series. This story is an ADULT enemies-to-lovers urban fantasy romance.

Download or read book Dominator of the Stars written by Ku SeDeCha and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vast universe, 100 races coexisted. A mutated blood spirit allowed Mu Qing to rise up from earth to fight against the bug clan. The purple bamboo forest attracted millions of thunder tribulations, and the black Kun Peng flapped its wings, crushing countless powerhouses. There was only one Imperial Lord in the starry sky!

Download or read book The Haunting Fetus written by Marc L. Moskowitz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and how these ramify through historical epistemologies and folk traditions. The author illustrates how images of fetus-ghosts are often used to manipulate women, either through fear or guilt, into paying exorbitant sums of money for appeasement. He argues at the same time, however, that although appeasement can be expensive, it provides important psychological comfort to women who have had abortions as well as a much-needed means to project personal and familial feelings of transgression onto a safely displaced object. In addition to bringing to the surface underlying tensions within a family, appeasing fetus-ghosts, like other dealings with supernatural beings in Chinese religions, allows for atonement through economic avenues. The paradox in which fetus-ghost appeasement simultaneously exploits and assists evinces the true complexity of the issue--and of religious and gender studies as a whole.

Download or read book Blood Oranges written by Kathleen Tierney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name’s Quinn. If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time. Or the right place at the wrong time. Or…whatever. Wanted for crimes against inhumanity I (mostly) didn’t commit, I was nearly a midnight snack for a werewolf until I was “saved” by a vampire calling itself the Bride of Quiet. Already cursed by a werewolf bite, the vamp took a pint out of me too. So now…now, well, you wouldn’t think it could get worse, but you’d be dead wrong.

Download or read book Absolute Monarch in Heaven written by Long Wu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Divine Martial Continent, the strong were respected. Ye Feng, who had transmigrated to a different world, had occasionally come across a mysterious stone monument. He practiced a supreme cultivation technique that could swallow everything, using everything for himself, reaching the pinnacle of martial arts! Book Level Setting: Warrior: Spirit Apostle, Spirit Scholar, Spirit Master, Small Innate, Large Innate, Qi Condensation, Condensation, Condensation, Heavenly Completion Stage Nine, Human Sovereign, Earth Elder, Sky Sovereign, Supreme God! Symbol Master: Symbol Master, Symbol Master, Symbol Master, little symbol spirit, great symbol spirit, Symbol Emperor, Symbol Soul Master, Symbol Saint realm, Soul Immortal, True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Immortal King! Different books, different wonderful books, all in one hand breaking the heavens [kept]

Download or read book Asura Continent written by Ban MuFangTang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps for Lu Yang, fate is unfair.He is the childe of the Lu family, but also the most humble illegitimate of the Lu family. The father and his principal wife lived in the exquisite courtyard, but Lu Yang and his mother who were abandoned by the family lived in the most deserted cottage. Lu Yang dod not understand literature, nor did he have the martial cultivation. Even if he is ridiculed as a waste by the people, there is no way.That year, Lu Yang was humiliated and lost his loved ones. Now, returning from the Asura world, Lu Yang wants to change all of this, and let Heaven and Earth submit to his feet.☆About the Author☆Banmu Pond is an excellent fantasy novel writer. He has written a total of eight novels, including Asura Continent, Piggy's School Years, Yin and Yang Ghost Emperor and so on. The pen name of Banmu Pond was taken from the poem of Zhu Xi, a poet of the Song Dynasty. The author expressed his attitude towards reading and the pursuit of new knowledge.

Download or read book A Perfect Blood written by Kim Harrison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything.” —Charlaine Harris There’s nothing more darkly satisfying than time spent in the Hollows—New York Times bestseller Kim Harrison’s alternate urban fantasy Cincinnati where vampires, pixies, and werewolves roam free. Harrison takes us back in A Perfect Blood, as former bounty hunter witch-turned-reluctant daywalking demon Rachel Morgan investigates a series of ritual murders, only to discover to her horror that whomever—or whatever—is responsible is actually seeking her blood. Rachel’s sexy, supernatural adventures have consistently landed atop bestseller lists from coast-to-coast, and A Perfect Blood is no exception—another supremely satisfying excursion to a deliciously eerie fantasy realm that’s certain to delight Kim Harrison’s voracious army of fans…not to mention Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, and Stephanie Meyers aficionados, and any reader who craves a walk on the wild, dark side.

Download or read book Demons of the Past written by H.B. Lyne and published by Weaver of Words Press. This book was released on with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past whispers. Future trembles. Will unmasking their demons save or shatter them? Stalker, a fierce young shifter, grapples with mounting responsibilities: safeguarding her territory, managing her human job, navigating a budding romance, and above all, unmasking the sinister cultist lurking in the shadows. The winter since their victory over the Plague Doctor has been a quiet one, providing a semblance of routine and stability. Yet, beneath the calm, Stalker harbours a secret that could shatter their hard-earned peace. For pack Alpha, Fights-Eyes-Open, maintaining balance is a relentless task. Despite the calm, he's aware that their feud with The Witches still smoulders, the embers of old grievances poised to ignite anew. His worst fears come to pass when a brutal attack fractures his human family, upending the equilibrium he had so carefully nurtured. Thrust into a desperate quest for answers, the pack plunges into the murkiest corners of their territory's history. Consequently, Stalker is faced with the gravest conflict of her shifter life. As she wrestles with profound questions of identity and loyalty, she must decide: who can she trust? How long can she conceal the truth from her shifter family? And in the internal power struggle within the pack, who will come out on top? 'Demons of the Past' is a gripping dark urban fantasy thriller that will challenge your perceptions and leave you on the edge of your seat. Beneath the bonds of loyalty lie secrets, deception, and betrayal. Dive into 'Demons of the Past' today to uncover the truth.

Download or read book Trafficking with Demons written by Martha Rampton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity, and their own Christian faith. As Rampton shows, throughout the first Christian millennium, magic was thought to play a natural role within the functioning of the universe and existed within a rational cosmos hierarchically arranged according to a "great chain of being." Trafficking with the "demons of the lower air" was the essense of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.

Download or read book A Celebration of Demons written by Bruce Kapferer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.

Download or read book Demons Rising written by Sylvia Gladney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Kimberly, Matthew and Nimora are dealing with the matters of the heart. Because they are being forced to marry people they don't even know. Along with Essence being the new leader of Warrin. She's having issues protecting her people. Which results into her experimenting with (Dark Magic). All the while they are blindsided by Evander's mission to finish what he started. Welcome back to the world of Warrin where the stakes are becoming higher and the blood is flowing redder.

Download or read book Personal Demons written by Gregory and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amidst an eerie and distant future, this novel tells the story of Etlantis—the mother city built in the shadows of Mt. Arom—and the possible end of the world. Believing in their right to rule the planet, the people of Etlantis sent ships to hunt the Western Seas. In them were the Nephilim—sons of Angels who had become addicted to human flesh and blood through the curse of Enoch. In the wake of their terror, the earth's human population has neared extinction. Unless the survivors can band together to destroy the monsters that ravaged their home, the end is all but certain. Featuring an imaginative range of characters and concepts, this is a harrowing vision of the line between heaven and earth.

Download or read book League of Legends Best Sword King written by Cang ShengFuTu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meng Fan had traveled to another world and brought along the League of Legends' system. He discovered that he had become a hard worker. Carrying the mission of saving the Walland Continent, Meng Fan continued to raise his strength, breaking all the schemes of the various temples, and destroying all magical creatures. This was an extremely exciting heroic adventure, as well as an extremely exciting battle. All sorts of top-tier equipment were dropped to the point of being dazzling. A legendary set of equipment could instantly kill gods. This was the world of the League of Heroes, as well as a mysterious world of magic ...

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores this dark aspect of folklore and religion and the role that demons play in the modern world. Includes numerous entries documenting beliefs about demons and demonology from ancient history to the present.

Download or read book Demons and Dragons written by Kit Bladegrave and published by . This book was released on with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious dragons. Hot demons. Fierce witches. Powerful shifters. Enigmatic elves. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Dragon Reign Saga is just starting. Rivals Mysterious demons. Fierce dragon shifters. Secret councils. New alliances. The Dragon Reign Saga is just starting. Kate’s whole world just turned upside down. She’s hearing weird things, and seeing weird things. And Mama Lucy is a witch. No, really. Not like a capital B witch, but a capital W witch. And the guys Kate’s just saved from imminent death is part demon. And the guy that’s after her is a dragon. Her life redefines teen drama. Craig’s a bastard son of a demon king. And he’s a thief. He’s just found the item he’s supposed to appropriate when his cousin stabs him with a poisoned dagger. Forrest is out to collect the bounty for capturing the bastard son of a demon king. He doesn’t plan to save the girl, or the half-breed demon. He also doesn’t plan to be the one who needs saving. This unlikely trio find themselves chased by enemies, known and unknown as they slip into a different dimension called Burnt World. Shards Kate wants answers. She wants to know about the family she’s never known. She and Craig are convinced they have to return to the cursed lands to find the answers. She finds herself with more questions that she thought she’d have as she’s torn between half-demon Craig and son of the dragon shifter clan Forrest. Craig’s got feelings for Kate, but he also has secrets of his own. He didn’t count on her seeing his secrets in the flesh. Forrest’s torn between his own feelings for Kate and his allegiance to the clan. Kate—she’s just torn. Legends Kate now knows what she is. She knows what she has to do. But she’s stuck between a Forrest, a dragon shifter prince and Craig, a half-demon bastard. And they’ve got a mystery to solve and a world to save. The problem is: emotions. There are too many of them and they are conflicting! Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Chaos Dragon shifter Kate has some tough decisions to make, and so does her heart. She and her dragon are torn between Forrest, a dragon shifter prince and Craig, a half-demon bastard. And they’re constantly avoiding enemies and fighting rogue family members. To think, not so long ago, Kate’s biggest concern was homework. Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Ravages Dragon shifter Kate and her allies, a demon and another dragon shifter are torn between the past and the present, their lives and the former lives of those who battled mortal enemies before them. Continually battling enemies and fighting rogue family members, they find themselves in a battle for more than just their lives. They fight for their own kind as well as humankind. Join Kate, Craig, and Forrest on their journey of adventures. Beware: Cliffhangers, violence can be found in this serial series of swicked action-packed fantasy, hot dragons, and fierce witches.