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Alles lijkt normaal in de Poorten van Anubis, totdat professor Brendan Doyle, gespecialiseerd in de grote romantische dichters van de vorige eeuw, ingaat op de uitnodiging een lezing bij te wonen van Samuel Taylor Coleridge in het London van... 1810. Zo begint deze wervelende avonturenroman, waarin de doortastende Doyle, onder levensgevaarlijke omstandigheden, zijdelings of direct te maken krijgt met de machinaties van een eeuwenoude Egyptische tovenaar die door middel van zeer krachtige magie de wereldgeschiedenis denkt te veranderen; een weerwolf die voortdurend van gastheer verandert en bij elke wisseling zijn slachtoffer om het leven brengt om zijn geheime identiteit te verbergen; een afschuwelijk verminkte clowneske misdadiger die verschrikkelijke experimenten op zijn medemensen uitvoert en een gehersenspoelde Lord Byron, geprogrammeerd om koning George te vermoorden. Alsof dit alles nog niet voldoende is, als Doyle ment voorgoed in het verleden te zijn gestrand en als de wanhoop nabij is, hoort hij plotseling in het negentiende-eeuse London iemand de Beatles-klassieker Yesterday fluiten... En dit zijn ze nog lang niet allemaal, de verhaaldragende elementen en personages die De Poorten van Anubis maken tot een reis- en tijdavontuur zonder weerga.

'The Drawing of the Dark is not only one of my favourite Tim Powers novels, it's simply one of my favourite novels. The seamless and seemingly effortless blend of action and humour, the wonderful characters, the rich settings, the brilliant plot - all of it is perfect' James P. Blaylock

"Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn't have-and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him. But Castine risks career, liberty, and maybe even life to warn Vickery-and now they're both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence. With the unlikely aid of a renegade Russian agent, a homeless Hispanic boy, and an eccentric old Flat-Earther, Vickery and Castine must find an ancient relic that spells banishment to the alien species, and then summon the things and use it against them-in a Samson-like confrontation that looks likely to kill them as well. Sweeping from the Giant Rock monolith in the Mojave Desert to a cultist temple in the Hollywood Hills, from a monstrous apparition in the Los Angeles River to a harrowing midnight visitation on a boat off Long Beach Harbor, Stolen Skies is an alien-encounter novel like no other"-- Provided by publisher

Set in 19th century London, the story follows Isaac Fairchild, a dimwitted beggar summoned by the sinister Horrabin, a clown who leads a guild of down-and-out individuals. Horrabin is rumored to maim his followers to enhance their begging skills. In a hidden chamber, Fairchild discovers Horrabin's plan to merge his mind with that of the Spoonsize Boys, tiny homunculi used for theft and assassination. While Fairchild longs for intelligence and understanding, he must confront the significant costs of such transformation.

The WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning novel from the author of THE ANUBIS GATES and DECLARE.

A swashbuckling, rip-roaring adventure: Pirates! Zombies! Blackbeard! Voodoo! Treasure! AND the book that inspired Pirates of the Caribbean IV: On Stranger Tides.

This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly

From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.

The second book in the Fault Lines sequence from the WORLD FANTASY AWARD- winning author of THE ANUBIS GATES.

A mysterious phone call compels ex-MI6 agent Andrew Hale to face the haunting memories of an ultra-secret wartime operation called Declare, which took him from Nazi-occupied Paris to post-war Berlin and the Arabian desert.