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Download Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane PDF

They assemble in darkness, sharing old and arcane wisdom as they control the very subject of truth itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation - those are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts. From the otherworldly visions of Conan Doyle's father in Audrey Niffenegger's 'The mistaken Fairy' to the diabolical political machinations of Dan Abnett's 'Party Tricks', right here you will discover a spell for each social gathering. Jonathan Oliver, significantly acclaimed editor of the tip of the road and residence of worry, has introduced jointly 16 notable writers for this number of magical stories. inside of you can find works through Audrey Niffenegger, Sarah Lotz, Will Hill, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Liz Williams, Dan Abnett, Thana Niveau, Alison Littlewood, Christopher Fowler, hurricane Constantine, Lou Morgan, Sophia McDougall, Gail Z. Martin, Gemma documents and Robert Shearman.

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Download Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion by Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink PDF

By Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink

This assortment demanding situations the tendency between students of historic Greece to work out magical and spiritual ritual as together particular and to disregard "magical" practices in Greek faith. The participants survey particular our bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological proof for magical practices within the Greek international, and, in every one case, be certain no matter if the conventional dichotomy among magic and faith is helping by any means to conceptualize the target beneficial properties of the facts tested.

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Download A Betrayal in Winter (Long Price Quartet, Book 2) by Daniel Abraham PDF

By Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham thrilled delusion readers along with his awesome, unique, and interesting first novel, A Shadow in summer time. Now he has produced an excellent extra robust sequel, a tragedy as darkly own and violent as Shakespeare's Macbeth.

As a boy, Otah Machi was once exiled from his kinfolk, Machi's ruling residence. many years later, he has witnessed and been a part of world-changing occasions. but he hasn't ever again to Machi. Now his father--the Khai, or ruler, of Machi--is loss of life and his eldest brother Biitrah has been assassinated, Otah realizes that he needs to go back to Machi, for purposes now not even he understands.

Tradition dictates that the sons of a demise Khai fall upon one another till just one is still to prevail his father. yet anything even worse is happening in Machi. The Galts, an expansive empire, has allied with somebody in Machi to carry down the ruling apartment. Otah is accused, the long-missing brother with an all-too-obvious intent for murder.

With the subtlety and lovely storytelling ability of his first novel, Abraham has created a masterful drama packed with a different magic, a suspenseful mystery of sexual betrayal, and Machiavellian politics.

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Download Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, Book 2) by Ben Aaronovitch PDF

By Ben Aaronovitch

I used to be my dad's vinyl-wallah: I replaced his files whereas he lounged round consuming tea, and that's how i do know my Argo from my pace. And it's why, while Dr Walid known as me to the morgue to hear a corpse, I recognized the track it was once taking part in. anything violently supernatural had occurred to the sufferer, robust sufficient to depart its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had it sounds as if dropped useless of a middle assault simply after completing a gig in a Soho jazz membership. He wasn't the 1st. nobody was once going to permit me exhume corpses to determine in the event that they have been taking part in my music, so it was once again to outdated legwork, beginning in Soho, the guts of the scene. I didn't belief the stunning Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, expert jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens' portrait, yet i wanted her aid: there have been monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that exact present that separates the nice musician from an individual who can elevate an honest song. What they take is good looks. What they depart in the back of is illness, failure and damaged lives. And as I hunted them, my research received twisted up in one other tale: a super trumpet participant, Richard 'Lord' furnish - my father - who controlled to break his personal profession, two times. That's the object approximately policing: as a rule you're doing it to take care of public order. sometimes you're doing it for justice. and perhaps as soon as in a profession, you're doing it for revenge.

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Download Quincy Morris 01 Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis PDF

By Justin Gustainis

Supernatural investigator Quincey Morris and his companion, white witch Libby Chastain, are referred to as in to assist unfastened a determined kinfolk from a dangerous curse that looks to this point again to the Salem Witch Trials. To liberate the family members from risk they have to locate the foundation of the curse, a black witch with a poor grudge that holds the family members in her power.The pursuit takes them to the mysterious underworlds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans and long island, stalking a prey that's made up our minds to stick hidden. After surviving a sequence of terrifying makes an attempt on their lives, the 2 locate themselves drawn inexorably in the direction of Salem itself ­ and the very center of darkness.

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Download A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, Book 1) by Libba Bray PDF

By Libba Bray

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mom, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is distributed off from the lifestyles she is familiar with in India to Spence, a formal boarding institution in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and vulnerable to visions of the long run that experience an uncomfortable behavior of coming precise, Gemma’s reception there's a cold one. To make issues worse, she’s been through a mysterious younger Indian guy, a guy despatched to monitor her. yet why? what's her future? And what's going to her entanglement with Spence’s strongest girls—and their foray into the non secular world—lead to?

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Download Storm Rising (Valdemar: The Mage Storms, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey PDF

By Mercedes Lackey

Unique ebook: 1994

With her exceptional Mage Winds trilogy, bestselling writer Mercedes Lackey captivated enthusiasts around the nation. Now within the first quantity of the sequence sequel, she maintains an identical storyline, returning readers to a war-torn Valdemar in guidance to confront an old jap Empire--ruled through a monarch whose magical strategies via be past any sorcery identified to the western kingdoms.

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