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Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming

Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley · 288 pages

Azzie Elbub, demon, attempts to ensure that the Powers of Dark will win the grand prize given at the turn of each millennium to the being who does the most to reshape the world.

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Mercury Rises

Robert Kroese · 314 pages

Fresh off their successful quest to thwart not one, but two diabolical plots to destroy the world, jaded reporter Christine Temetri and rogue cherub Mercury find that mysterious powers outranking even the Heavenly bureaucracy seem intent on keeping the Apocalypse on track. While the world is plagued by natural disasters and nations prepare for war, crazed billionaire Horace Finch plots to use a se

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Clovenhoof

Heide Goody, Iain Grant · 538 pages

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Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

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Eric

Terry Pratchett · 149 pages

Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Ri

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The Reluctant Demon

Mark Cain · 288 pages

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Carpet Diem: Or...How to Save the World by Accident

Justin Lee Anderson · 338 pages

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 412 pages

The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Mirra Ginsburg's (Grove Press) version is pointedly grotesque: she delights in the sharp, spinning, impressionistic phrase. Her Bulgakov reminds one of the virtuoso effects encountered in Za

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Practical Demonkeeping

Christopher Moore · 249 pages

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Tra

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The Weirdness

Jeremy P. Bushnell · 282 pages

"What do you do when you wake up hung over and late for work only to find a stranger on your couch? And what if that stranger turns out to be an Adversarial Manifestation who has already brewed you a fresh cup of fair-trade coffee? If you're Billy Ridgeway, you take the coffee. Lucifer explains that Billy must retrieve the Neko of Infinite Equilibrium, a cat-shaped statue with magical powers, befo

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A Study in Brimstone

G.S. Denning · 375 pages

"Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalalwart companion. Thankfully, Dr. Watson is always there to aid him through the treacherous shoals of Victorian propr

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The Creeps

John Connolly · 320 pages

Samuel Johnson and his faithful dachshund Boswell join with a ragtag band of dwarves, policemen, and polite monsters when the Multiverse is threatened with destruction, starting in the little English town of Biddlecombe. "In this clever and quirky follow-up to The Gates and The Infernals, Samuel Johnson's life seems to have finally settled dow-n-after all, he's still got the company of his fait

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... People have been predicting the end of the world al

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A Night in the Netherhells

Craig Shaw Gardner · 185 pages

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Another Fine Myth

Robert Lynn Asprin · 200 pages

A magician's apprentice teams up with the demon Ashz and experiences a variety of adventures with many strange characters.

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The Devil is a Part-Timer Light Novel, Vol. 2

Satoshi Wagahara · 275 pages

"Sadao Maou, the Devil King, has finally been promoted to store manager! And who should move next door to his fortress (actually a tiny studio apartment in a dingy walk-up) but a lovely kimono-wearing lass. But the former devil-crushing hero Emi Yusa is none too pleased with this turn of events, to say nothing of high-schooler Chiho Sasaki, who's still nursing a terrible crush on the Devil King. M

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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

Jonathan L. Howard · 291 pages

In this uproarious and clever debut, it's time to give the Devil his due.Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan,

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Luck of the Draw

Piers Anthony · 375 pages

Summoned to Xanth as part of a Demons wager, Bryce is transported out of his aged body and granted youth and magic in exchange for his agreement to woo and marry a reluctant Princess Harmony.

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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The Damned Busters

Matthew Hughes · 416 pages

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Azazel

Isaac Asimov · 221 pages

Meet Azazel... He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course. George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain

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Demons of the Dancing Gods

Jack L. Chalker · 257 pages

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Satan Burger

Carlton Mellick III · 236 pages

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