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On a world called Eldh, an ancient gate of iron weakens. A darkness that has slept for 1000 years - the Pale King - stirs once more. On a world called Earth, a preacher of the Apocalypse blows into a Colorado mountain town with a message: the darkness is coming.
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With Beyond The Pale Mark Anthony has made one of the most striking and accomplished fantasy debuts in recent years. This is a big and ambitious novel, and yet only the first part of an even bigger and more ambitious series. Reality is crumbling in Castle City and the dead walk in Denver, while from the very first page, when "Brother Cy's Apocalyptic Travelling Salvation Show" blows into town late one fall night, Anthony tips his hand that we are in the classic American shadowlands of Ray Bradbury's The October Country. Travis Wilder, a bar owner, and Grace Beckett, a doctor and Wilder's friend, find themselves amid increasingly bizarre and fantastical events, crossing over to the parallel reality of Eldh, a world of magic and deadly conflict. Here they will become involved with The Council of Kings, journey to The Rune Gate...and enter a web of conspiracy and dark magic at the heart of the ancient fight between the forces of good and nightmarish evil.
With his engaging and compulsively readable style, Mark Anthony is comparable to Stephen King, while his dark and complex parallel world will appeal to readers of Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and Clive Barker's Imajica. This is a gripping, intense and highly imaginative first novel with a real sense of danger about the adventure, well-drawn characters to care about, and more than one ingenious twist in the skilfully plotted tale. --Gary S. Dalkin
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On a world called Eldh, an ancient gate of iron weakens. A darkness that has slept for 1000 years - the Pale King - stirs once more. On a world called Earth, a preacher of the Apocalypse blows into a Colorado mountain town with a message: the darkness is coming.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Cover: Steve Youll (illustrator). First British Paperback. 527 pages. Some very mild reading creases to spine and light shelfwear, mainly to the corners, otherwise bright and clean. On a world called Eldh, an ancient gate of iron weakens. A darkness that has slept for a thousand years - the Pale King - stors once more. On a world called earth, a preacher of the Apocalypse blows into a Colorado mountain town with a message for those who dare to listen: the darkness is coming. Travis Wilder, bar-owner and drifter, is given a mysterious stone by a friend. Grace Beckett, an ER doctor in Denver, finds a gunshot victim with a heart of iron. Both Travis and Grace must step beyond the pale, beyond the boundaries of the world they have known. As doors are opened for each of them, they enter Eldh, a world where they are caught against their wills in an age-old struggle between good and evil. A world of magic, runes and death. Book. Seller Inventory # 007653
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Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Stephen Youll (illustrator). 1999 Edition. © 1998: 1st in the 'Last Rune' series of books. 1st printing of 1999 edition:- Synopsis: Walk between the worlds. On a world called Eldh, an ancient gate of iron weakens. A darkness that has slept for a thousand years - the Pale King - stirs once more. On a world called Earth, a preacher of the Apocalypse blows into a Colorado mountain town with a message for those who dare to listen: the darkness is coming. Travis Wilder, bar-owner and drifter, is given a mysterious stone by a friend. Grace Beckett, an ER doctor in Denver, finds a gunshot victim with a heart of iron. Both Travis and Grace must step beyond the pale, beyond the boundaries of the world they have known. As doors are opened for each of them, they enter Eldh, a world where they are caught against their wills in an age-old struggle between good and evil. A world of magic, runes and death:- Review(s): "Mark Anthony's fantasy world deserves the highest plaudit: it seems as realistic as Earth, despite the huge differences. The first volume in a massive saga, 'Beyond The Pale' takes the reader far away from the lands they know. Join the journeyers" / "He writes fluently and descriptively, and his ability to add just the right amount of the strange and bizarre really works - this reader has a hunch that he is going to be a big name" - Ottaker's SF and Fantasy Newsletter:- (original cost £6.99). Seller Inventory # 16.999.00035
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