Demons (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #9)

Writers from Clive Barker to Bruce Sterling and Roger Zelazny have praised John Shirleyâs searing, apocalyptic visions of postmodern hell on earth. Now this perversely brilliant author, one of the seminal representatives on the cyberpunk movement, unleashes his newest masterpiece.

DEMONS

In a future uncomfortably close to the present day, the apocalypse has surpassed all expectations. Hideous demons roam the streets in an orgy of terror, drawing pleasure from torturing humans as sadistically as possible. Divided into seven clans, these grisly invadersâgnashing, writhing, bloodthirsty monstersâseem horrifically to belong in our world.

Ira, a young San Francisco artist, becomes involved with a strange group of scientists and philosophers desperately trying to end the bloody siege. Yet through it all, Ira continues to paintâfor in his canvasses lie crucial clues to the demonsâ origins.

Yet the demons draw their strength from an all-too-familiar evilâa deadly malevolence supported by some of the greatest powers on earth, concealed beneath the trappings of status, success, and abused power. Ira and his alliesâ including a compelling young seeressâcome to believe these demons didnât just appear. They were summoned. But the most shocking revelation is yet to come . . .

EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION: The original novella Demons was published as an acclaimed, limited edition hardcover which Publishers Weekly called a âmini-masterpiece.â Now the terror continues, as the sequel story, âUndercurrents,â takes the reader on a macabre journey into the center of the conspiracy that may lay waste to the Earth.