Unholy NightFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Unholy Night, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and weave an epic tale. In Grahame-Smith's telling, the so-called "Three Wise Men" are infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. After a daring escape from Herod's prison, they stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king. The last thing Balthazar needs is to be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. But when Herod's men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no choice but to help them escape to Egypt. It's the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the last magical creatures of the Old Testament; cross paths with biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist; and finally deliver them to Egypt. It may just be the greatest story never told. |
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... blades of grass on the cliff's edge—grazed apart from the others, closer to the boneshattering drop than eventhey dared go. These blades it now pulledatoh so carefully with its teeth. Its cloven hooves clacked against the loose rocks of ...
... blades of grass on the cliff's edge—grazed apart from the others, closer to the boneshattering drop than eventhey dared go. These blades it now pulledatoh so carefully with its teeth. Its cloven hooves clacked against the loose rocks of ...
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... blade ofgrass out oftherock with its teeth, the ibex had forgotten they'd ever existed. Balthazar couldn't see a damned thing. Herode hiscamel across the desert valley, kicking its sides like mad, his eyes the only things visible ...
... blade ofgrass out oftherock with its teeth, the ibex had forgotten they'd ever existed. Balthazar couldn't see a damned thing. Herode hiscamel across the desert valley, kicking its sides like mad, his eyes the only things visible ...
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... blade hadhit the neck just right, between the vertebrae, and gone cleanthrough. Before the first soldier's head had evensplashed down, Bal­thazar had kicked the second in the chest, knocking him onto his back. Then, justas thefirst ...
... blade hadhit the neck just right, between the vertebrae, and gone cleanthrough. Before the first soldier's head had evensplashed down, Bal­thazar had kicked the second in the chest, knocking him onto his back. Then, justas thefirst ...
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Seth Grahame-Smith. with his blade, watching his face drain from pink to ash white, then yanked it out, spilling his blood and entrails onto the tiled floor. Bythis point, the second soldier had managed to get back to his feet. But it ...
Seth Grahame-Smith. with his blade, watching his face drain from pink to ash white, then yanked it out, spilling his blood and entrails onto the tiled floor. Bythis point, the second soldier had managed to get back to his feet. But it ...
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... blade still dripping with blood—turned back, and climbed the brick wall of the bathhouse. He could always fight his way across the rooftops, jumping from building to building until he found a horse,or a camel, or anything better than ...
... blade still dripping with blood—turned back, and climbed the brick wall of the bathhouse. He could always fight his way across the rooftops, jumping from building to building until he found a horse,or a camel, or anything better than ...
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