books about: fiend (apprentice malevolent novelette)

books about: fiend

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Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer
Harold Schechter

Gallery Books, 2000

A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as ...

Fiends
Richard Laymon

Headline Book Publishing, 1997

Out on a date at the movies, Marty is horrified to see Willy, the man who broke into her house and raped her 10 years before. Now that he is out of jail, Willy is out to get Marty. Fiends is the lead-off novella in this collection of horror stories.

Fiend
Jemiah Jefferson

Leisure Books, 2005

In nineteenth-century Italy, young Orfeo Ricari teeters on the brink of adulthood. His new tutor instructs him in literature and poetry during the day and guides him in the world of sensual pleasure at night. But a journey to Paris will teach young Orfeo much more. For in Paris he will become a vampire.

Fiend: A Novel
Peter Stenson

Crown, 2013

There’s more than one kind of monster. When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations. But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before ...

The Fiend and the Forge: Book Three of The Tapestry
Henry H. Neff

Bluefire, 2011

Rowan has lost the war, and while the Academy works to rebuild, outside its protected walls everything has changed. Astaroth, using the Book of Thoth, has created a world where demons rule, chaos reigns, and humans toil like slaves . . . and worse. Outraged by Rowan's seeming complacency with the new order and reeling from personal tragedy, Max McDaniels sets out on his own for escape, for information, and for revenge. In his travels, he will ...

Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice, Book 4)
Joseph Delaney

Greenwillow Books, 2009

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born." Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil. Tom and the Spook set out to stop the witches before they ...

City of Fiends (Knights Templar)
Michael Jecks

Simon & Schuster UK, 2013

Thrilling new novel in the acclaimed series from historical master Jecks It's 1327 and England is in turmoil. King Edward II has been removed from the throne and his son installed in his place. The old man's rule had proved a disaster for the realm and many hope that his removal may mean the return of peace to England's cities. Keeper of the King's Peace, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock had been tasked with ...

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Christopher Moore

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, ...

Fiend in Need (Dark Lord)
Jamie Thomson

Orchard, 2012

Sooz, a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has become the Dark Mistress of Dirk's otherworldly kingdom, the Darklands. Thanks to the Ring of Power given to her by Dirk, his minions recognize her as their ruler. Sooz immediately sets about redecorating Dirk's Dark Tower to the taste of a young girl. But Sooz has to face her toughest challenge when an army of fanatical paladins and orcs gather to march against her. Despite their centuries of hostility to ...

Fiend Folio (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.0 Fantasy Roleplaying)
James Wyatt

Wizards of the Coast, 2003

Vanquish Terrible Evil The noblest heroes must contend with the foulest monsters. Whether torn from the darkest planes of existence or spawned as blights upon the natural world, the creatures bound within these covers will challenge stalwart adventurers of every experience level. This accessory for the D&D game captures over 150 monsters, including some of the most diabolical beings imaginable. While focused on extraplanar and otherworldly ...

Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Fiends
Colin McComb, Hal MacLean

Paizo Publishing, LLC., 2012

They have been shunned and feared by society forever. Born of tainted bloodlines and raised in shameful secrecy, the tieflings of Golarion count among their ancestors some of the greatest evils of the Great Beyond. Yet not all tieflings succumb to the sinister compulsions of their evil blood - some strive to rise above the stereotype and become heroes in their own right. This Pathfinder sourcebook explores all that it is to be a tiefling, ...

The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Aleister Crowley

Weiser Books, 2010

This is a true story. . . It is a terrible story; but it is also a story of hope and of beauty. Written by Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend tells the story of young Peter Pendragon and his lover Louise Laleham, and their adventures traveling through Europe in a cocaine and heroin haze. The bohemian couples' binges produce visions and poetic prophecies, but when their supply inevitably runs dry they find themselves faced with the reality ...

My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or ...
Judith Viorst

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1987

How can Nick believe his mother's telling him there aren't any monsters when she forgets what his favorite flavor of ice cream is? Or when she makes him wear boots and it doesn't even rain? Well, sometimes Mamas do make mistakes...but sometimes they don't. Judith Viorst's appealing text combines with Kay Chorao's wickedly evocative drawings in this all-new edition of a favorite book.

Bite Me: A Love Story (Bloodsucking Fiends)

HarperCollins e-books, 2010

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.” —Carl Hiaasen The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in continuing story of young, ...

Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction
Steven Martin

Villard, 2012

A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery. A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure, San Diego–born Steven Martin followed his bliss to Southeast Asia, where he found work as a freelance journalist. While researching an article about the vanishing culture of ...

Fiend Folio: Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign: (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons)

TSR Hobbies, Inc., 1981

Excellent source of monsters for 1st Edition AD&D, April 2, 2000 By Henry Bent (Oberlin, OH USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Fiend Folio: Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Games) (Hardcover) The Fiend Folio, if you can still find it, is an excellent source of monsters "malevolent and benign," but mostly malevolent. It introduces many creatures which are staples to 2nd edition AD&D, ...

Dark Lord: A Fiend in Need
Jamie Thomson

Walker Childrens, 2013

After acclimating to the inane customs of the blathering human fools, Dirk Lloyd has managed to make contact with his home in the Darklands. Unfortunately, his powers have betrayed him yet again. His new, and dare he say it, good friend Sooz has been transported to his Iron Tower of Despair, where she awaits what is sure to be a slow and painful end. Little does Dirk know that Sooz has formed her own alliances as the new Dark Mistress of his ...

Friend or Fiend? with the Pain and the Great One (Pain & the Great One (Quality))
Judy Blume

Yearling, 2010

This dynamic bestselling author/illustrator duo captures the ups and downs of everyday life in this chapter book offering fun and perfectly narrated short stories—for kids who can already read, like the Great One, or for kids who are learning to read, like the Pain. Friend or Fiend? is the fourth book in a quartet of hilarious and warm-hearted stories that showcase the joys, the fun, and the frustrations of sibling rivalry and devotion, as ...

The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Rampo Edogawa

Kurodahan Press, 2012

When 1930s Tokyo is threatened by a master thief who can disguise himself to look like anyone, and laughs at the law, the people of the city have nowhere else to turn but Japan's greatest detective, Akechi Kogoro. Unfortunately for Tokyo, however, Akechi Kogoro is off on overseas business, so it becomes the job of his 12-year old assistant, Kobayashi Yoshio, to track down the thief and desperately keep him at bay until his mentor returns. In ...

The Hero and the Fiend (An Epic Fantasy Novelette) (Harbinger of Doom), 2012

Praise for Glenn G. Thater's Writing: "Glenn Thater's, The Gateway, is a masterfully crafted epic fantasy about the ages old struggle between good and evil. " ---- Carol Marrs Phipps, author of Elf Killers "... as good as any fantasy tale you will read, it honors the tradition, and adds to our lore a story so good, so well told, I hope it will be remembered forever ." ----- Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands. ...The author paints ...