Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal—a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails.Assisted—ably and otherwise—by his vampiric brother Horst and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, they will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit and a city of horrors. London, to be exact.Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As it closes slowly and subtly around them, it...

MISTY WITLOW heads to the beach near Los Angeles to enjoy the sun and videotape a greeting for her mother. An enormous shark, pale white in color, surfaces in a deep channel near her. The school bus sized beast rams the rocks she is standing on, knocking a tooth loose into the water. She retrieves the hand sized tooth, and convinces a skeptical scientist this supposedly extinct creature is alive.