Demons: Encounters With the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

John Skipp

Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011 - Fiction - 630 pages

2011 BRAM STOKER WINNER for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!

This mind-blowing anthology cracks open the lid on demonic lore, from the possessed to fallen angels and the Devil himself. The next book in Black Dog's supernatural series, Demons presents thirty-six terrifying, tantalizing tales in which evil spirits wreak havoc on the world. Neil Gaiman, William Peter Blatty, Kim Harrison and Robert R. McCammon join H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Beaumont, Bentley Little, Maggie Stiefvator, Danielle Trussoni, David J. Schow, Karl Edward Wagner, Richard Christian Matheson, Adram-Troy Castro, Amelia Beamer, Cody Goodfellow, Carlton Mellick III, and dozens more, both old and new. Horror legend John Skipp, editor of Zombies and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight into the history and details of demon lore, and its role in popular culture. Between the extensive resource materials and the lovingly selected stories - ranging from fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, and magic realism to full-blown Bizarro - Demons is an indispensable text, and the most fun you'll ever have with the forces of evil.

What people are saying

Review: Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

User Review  - Vorbis - Goodreads

The individual books in here are wonderful, the flow and juxtaposition of them are wonderful, but I'm not a horror reader and it was just too big for me to really enjoy. That said, the excerpt from ...

Review: Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

User Review  - Stacy - Goodreads

I only read about a third of the stories in this 600+ page anthology before I had to return it to the library, so I won't rate it. But it's DEFINITELY worth checking out, if only for the first and ...

Contents

• The Terrible Things That Make Us Do All of the Terrible Things We Do: 1
• Cherub: 7
• The Devil: 37
• The Book: 47
• The Monkeys Paw: 63
• The Hound: 77
• The Black Cat: 87
• The Devil and Daniel Webster: 99
• Nellthu: 115
• The Howling Man: 119
• The Exorcist excerpt: 137
• Hell: 163
• Empathy: 169
• Visitation: 179
• Best Friends: 199
• Into Whose Hands: 243
• Pilgrims to the Cathedral: 265
• The Bespelled: 307
• Non Quis Sed Quid: 323
• Demon Girl: 327
• He Waits: 339
• Happy Hour: 359
• Staying the Night: 375
• Daisies and Demons: 381
• And Love Shall Have No Dominion: 389
• Mom: 401
• 20thLevel Chaotic Evil Rogue Seeks Whole Wide World To Conquer: 415
• Consuela Hates a Vacuum: 435
• Our Blood in Its Blind Circuit: 453
• Empty Church: 469
• Angelology excerpt: 489
• The Coda of Solomon: 499
• The Law of Resonance: 507
• Stupid Fucking Reason to Sell Your Soul: 527
• Halt and Catch Fire: 535
• Scars in Progress: 543
• The Unicorn Hunter: 571
• Other People: 587
• Demonic Roots On the History of the Devil: 593
• You Must Be Certain of the Devil Demons in Popular Culture: 601

About the author

John Skipp isáa New York Times bestselling author and editor, whose 18 books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide.á His first anthology, Book of the Dead, laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature, bringing George Romero's vision of the dead next door to new levels of scope and intensity.á He later edited three more zombie anthologies, including Mondo Zombie, which won the Bram Stoker Award for best anthology, and Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead and Werewolves & Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, both published by Black Dog & Leventhal. Skipp is recognized as splatterpunk's founding father and the elder statesman of the genre. His own legendary horror works include The Light at the End, the Scream, Jake's Wake and the Long Last Call. He lives in Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Demons: Encounters With the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed
• Editor: John Skipp
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011
• ISBN: 1579128793, 9781579128791
• Length: 630 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Horror