City Infernal (40 page)
Authors: Edward Lee
Hush smiled back at them. Ezoriel’s own team of Transfigurists had sewn her hand and head back on, and they’d even implanted a new voice-box in her throat.
She pointed to the next trail, the Rive out of the Deadpass.
“Then why fuck around?” Hush said. “The next train leaves in ten minutes. Let’s go back to Hell right now and kick some demon ass!”
(II)The sky churns dark-scarlet. The moon is black. It has been midnight here for millennia, and it always will be. The scape of the city stretches on in an endless sprawl. Just as endless are the screams, which fly away into the eternal night only to be immediately replaced by more of the same.
It is an incontestable cycle of human history, 5000 years old:
Cities rise, then they fall.
But not
this
city.
this
city.
Not the Mephistopolis.
EDWARD LEE has had over twenty-seven books published in the horror and suspense fields, including
Flesh Gothic, The Backwoods
and
City Infernal.
He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass market anthologies, including
The Best American Mystery Stories of 2000,
Pocket’s
Hot Blood
series, and the award-winning 999. The translation rights for several of his novels have recently been sold to Germany and Romania. His movie,
Header,
was filmed in late 2003 and awaits release. Meanwhile,
City Infernal,
Messenger,
Ghouls, The Bighead,
and
Family Tradition
have been optioned for film. Upcoming novels include
Golemesque
and
Gast.
Lee lives on Florida’s St. Pete Beach. Visit his official Web Site at
www.edwardleeonline.com
.
Flesh Gothic, The Backwoods
and
City Infernal.
He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass market anthologies, including
The Best American Mystery Stories of 2000,
Pocket’s
Hot Blood
series, and the award-winning 999. The translation rights for several of his novels have recently been sold to Germany and Romania. His movie,
Header,
was filmed in late 2003 and awaits release. Meanwhile,
City Infernal,
Messenger,
Ghouls, The Bighead,
and
Family Tradition
have been optioned for film. Upcoming novels include
Golemesque
and
Gast.
Lee lives on Florida’s St. Pete Beach. Visit his official Web Site at
www.edwardleeonline.com
.
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