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This category is for images of book covers for works by American author Stephen King. Media in category "Stephen King book cover images" The following 73 files are in this category, out of 73 total.
Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth for a single day. The novel initially depicts the assassination of a Governor of California (a fictionalized version of Ronald Reagan) by a black magician working as a contract killer.
Black Easter and The Day After Judgment were written with the assumption that the ritual magic for commanding demons, as described in grimoires, actually works.. In the first book, a wealthy arms manufacturer comes to a black magician, Theron Ware, with a strange request: he wishes to release all the demons from Hell on Earth for one night to see what might happen.
The book title is based on the fact that God Alone was the motto of Saint Louis de Montfort, and was repeated over 150 time in his writings. Through the influence of the French school of spirituality, and authors such as Henri Boudon , Montfort advocated a withdrawal from the world to seek God Alone.
Archangel Michael is commonly depicted holding scales to weigh the souls of people on Judgement Day.. The weighing of souls (Ancient Greek: psychostasia) [1] is a religious motif in which a person's life is assessed by weighing their soul (or some other part of them) immediately before or after death in order to judge their fate. [2]
This category is for images of book covers for works by Russian-Amerian writer Ayn Rand. Media in category "Ayn Rand book cover images" The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total.
Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter under the impression that "C. L. Moore" was a man.They soon collaborated on a story that combined Moore's signature characters, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry: "Quest of the Starstone" (1937).
Kirkus Reviews reviewed this book and somewhat liked it, saying, "A high-concept pitch, a potboiler on the page, and a protagonist to cheer for, but the authors do not quite tie it all together." [5] Woman of God was number one in hardcover fiction category in the New York Times Best Sellers list when it first appeared on that list, on October ...