How far would you go for beauty?
Stasia would do anything to be one of them:
The beautiful. The sexy. The popular.
When she learns of The Book of the Curburide, a treasure trove of demonic lore, she finally knows how she can attain what she desires. Only through the book can she summon Malphus, a Curburide demon who endows mortals with deadly beauty and sensuality.
She'll need to travel halfway across the world to Barcelona to learn the Curburide's secrets. And she'll have to undertake the darkest trials of sex and blood to gain access to the book, which is guarded by the Church of the Flesh.
But no matter what the cost, Stasia is determined that no person or perversion will prevent her from... RAISING MALPHUS
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John Everson is a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeño and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema. He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and its sequels Sacrifice and Redemption, as well as a dozen other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere, the haunting thriller Voodoo Heart and his latest giallo homage, The Bloodstained Doll. Other novels include Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds, The Pumpkin Man, Siren, The 13th and the spider-driven Violet Eyes.
Over the past 30 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series. His story "Letting Go" was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2007 and "The Pumpkin Man" was included in the anthology All American Horror: The Best of the First Decade of the 21st Century. He has written licensed tie-in stories for The Green Hornet and Kolchak The Night Stalker and novelettes for The Vampire Diaries and Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars universe (Books 1 and 3). V-Wars was turned into a 10-episode NetFlix series in 2019 that included two of Everson's characters, Danika and Mila Dubov.
His short story collections include Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions, Needles & Sins, Vigilantes of Love and Sacrificing Virgins. To catch up on his blog, join his newsletter or get information on his fiction, art and music, visit www.johneverson.com.