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History's leading figures, including Caesar and Cleopatra, Alexander of Macedon, and Judah Macabee, Che Guevara, and Yuri Andropov, meet the devil in a strange shared universe.

Contents:

• Son of the Morning - (1986) - short story by Chris Morris
• Newton Sleep - (1986) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Prince - (1986) - novella by C. J. Cherryh
• A Walk in the Park - (1986) - novelette by Nancy Asire
• The Hand of Providence - (1986) - novelette by David Drake
• Basileus - (1985) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh and Janet Morris
• To Reign in Hell - (1986) - novelette by Janet Morris
• The Gates of Hell (excerpt) - (1986) - short fiction by C. J. Cherryh and Janet Morris
• The Frankenstein Papers (excerpt) - (1986) - short fiction by Fred Saberhagen

Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar, the Pharaohs Hatshepsut and Cleopatra, Niccolo Machiavelli, Judah Macabee, and other damned adventurers brave the River of Fire and the River of Forgetfulness on a daring journey back to the land of the living.

All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, and Bill Kerby.

Contents:

• Undercover Angel - short fiction by Chris Morris
• Hell's Gate - short fiction by Bill Kerby
• Gilgamesh in the Outback - [Gilgamesh] - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Marking Time - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• Table with a View - novelette by Nancy Asire
• There Are No Fighter Pilots Down in Hell - novella by Martin Caidin
• 'Cause I Served My Time in Hell - short story by David Drake
• Monday Morning - short story by C. J. Cherryh
• Graveyard Shift - short fiction by Janet Morris

As the Second Trojan War begins, history's greatest champions and villains, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hatshepsut, Cleopatra, Brutus, and Machiavelli, fight the Battle of the Ages.

Contents:

• The Nature of Hell - short fiction by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• Gilgamesh Redux - short fiction by Janet Morris
• Crusaders in Love - short fiction by Bill Kerby
• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - novelette by Michael Armstrong
• Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• By Invitation Only - novelette by Nancy Asire
• The Gods of the Gaps - novella by Gregory Benford
• Springs Eternal - novelette by David Drake
• Snowballs in Hell - short fiction by Chris Morris

Altos, Hell's only Unfallen Angel, tours the nether regions and observes as Genghis Khan teaches a military historian a lesson, Marilyn Monroe kisses the Devil, Stalin rewrites the Bible, and Napoleon's lover ponders an offer to enter Heaven.

Contents:

• Handmaids in Hell - short story by Chris Morris
• The Fascination of the Abomination - [Gilgamesh] - (1987) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Price of an Egg - novelette by Alexandra Sokolov
• Reaching for Paradise - novelette by Brad Miner
• The Ex-Khan - short story by Robert Asprin [as by Robert L. Asprin]
• The Conscience of the King - novella by Nancy Asire and C. J. Cherryh
• Learning Curve - novelette by David Drake
• Sea of Stiffs - novelette by Janet Morris

Nine stories describe the experiences of Jeb Stuart, Copernicus, Richard Burton, Napoleon, Yuri Andropov, and Augustus try to adapt to the alternate world known as Hell.

Contents:

• The Ransom of Hellcat - novelette by Chris Morris
• Take Two - novelette by Bill Kerby
• Hellbike - short story by George Foy
• Houseguests - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Spitting in the Wind - novelette by Lynn Abbey
• God's Eyes - novelette by Michael Armstrong
• Bargain - novelette by David Drake
• Pawn in Play - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• Sea Change - novelette by Janet Morris

In an alternate world that appears to be Hell, Homer, the ancient Greek poet, is commanded by the Devil to write a chronicle of Hell.

Contents:

• [...] Is Hell - short story by Janet Morris
• Wisdom - short story by David Drake
• Fallout - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Gilgamesh in Uruk - [Gilgamesh] - (1988) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• An Appropriate Hell - novelette by Diana L. Paxson
• The Man in the Black Cape Turns - novelette by Michael Armstrong
• Giving Hell a Shot - novelette by Bill Kerby
• Rook's Move - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• Sign On - short story by Chris Morris

When all that is not false is chaos, how can there be prophets in Hell? In the Domain of Darkness, Chaos wars with Good and Evil until even the Father of Lies cannot distinguish between honest deceit, malicious truthtelling, and mere vituperative gibberish--so what's a poor devil to do?

Contents:

• Eye of a Needle - short story by Chris Morris
• Exile - novelette by David Drake
• The Garden of Blood Narcissus - novella by Brad Miner
• Death Freaks - (1989) - novella by Robert Sheckley
• Profits in Hell - short story by Bill Kerby
• Terminal - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• I, Hermes Trismegistus - poem by Richard Groller
• Fast Food - novelette by Nancy Asire
• The Sibylline Affair - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• Moving Day - novelette by Janet Morris

A multitude of histories finest (and worst) explorers find plenty to do in the new Hell novel.

Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more hellish as the greatest shared universe of all time makes its malevolent return. Souls you hate to love and souls you love to hate reunite for Lawyers in Hell, in twenty-two infernal tales from the underworlds, where Injustice must be served.

Contents:

• Interview with the Devil - short fiction by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• Tribe of Hell - novelette by Janet Morris
• The Rapture Elevator - short story by Michael H. Hanson [as by Michael Hanson]
• Out of Court Settlement - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• Revolutionary Justice - novelette by Leo Champion
• Tale of a Tail - novelette by Nancy Asire
• And Injustice for All - short story by Jason Cordova
• Measure of a Man - novelette by Deborah Koren
• The Adjudication of Hetty Green - short story by Allan Gilbreath
• Plains of Hell - novelette by Bruce Durham
• The Register - short story by Michael H. Hanson
• Island out of Time - novella by Richard Groller
• Appellate Angel - short story by Edward McKeown
• With Enemies Like These - novelette by David L. Burkhead
• The Dark Arts - short story by Kimberly Richardson
• Heads You Lose - novelette by Michael Z. Williamson
• Check and Mate - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• Disclaimer - novelette by John Manning
• Orientation Day - short story by Sarah Hulcy
• Remember, Remember, Hell in November - novelette by Larry Atchley, Jr.
• Theo Khthonios - novelette by Scott Oden
• Erra and the Seven - short story by Chris Morris

ROGUES IN HELL... The war heats up, Satan antes up, and rogues go adventuring as Hell's landlord faces off with Heaven's auditors.

Contents:

• Babe in Hell - short story by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• Which Way I Fly is Hell - novelette by Janet Morris
• Downtown Run - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Madly Meeting Logically - novelette by Michael Armstrong
• Library Redux - short story by Sarah Hulcy
• A Hatful of Dynamite - novelette by Deborah Koren
• Colony - short story by Bruce Durham
• Searcher - novelette by Edward McKeown
• The Miraculous Roadside Attraction - short story by Jack William Finley
• BDA - novelette by Richard Groller
• Hell Road Truckers - novelette by Michael H. Hanson
• If Necessary - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• Pursued by the Tauwu - short story by Shirley Meier
• Ragnarok & Roll - novelette by Larry Atchley, Jr.
• Scent of a Weapon - novelette by Bill Snider
• Showdown at Brimstone Arsenal - novelette by John Manning
• The Place of Fear - novelette by David L. Burkhead
• Chasing the Key - short story by H. David Blalock
• A Hard Day at the Office - short story by Michael Z. Williamson
• An Unholy Grail - novelette by Julie Cochrane
• Battle of Tartaros - novelette by Chris Morris

Seven million years on the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller list... The damned are revolting! The underworld explodes with excitement as Satan himself rebels against forces from on high. Or does he? Dreams are dashed and strongholds topple as the greatest shared universe of all times convulses with mystery and mayhem.

Shakespeare and Marlowe begin a new play to please the Devil.... Satan and Samael plot to expose the unrepentant damned... Before Napoleon's eyes, Caesar's villa explodes in chaos... Goethe finds out that hell is all around him... Isadora Duncan forgets that dreams can be hell... Hell's librarian throws a bash and the damned party down... and down... and down... All over the netherworlds, worse comes to worst as Hell's Most Unwanted try assaulting heaven's gates and raise more hell than they bargained for....

Contents:

• Fools in Hell - short story by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• Alms for Oblivion - short story by Janet Morris
• The Unholy Hole - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Essence Helliance - novelette by Yelle Hughes
• Barefoot, on Brimstone - short story by Sara M. Harvey
• Ophie and the Undertaker - short story by Shebat Legion
• Just Dessert - novelette by John Manning
• Hell, I Must Be Going - short story by Michael A. Ventrella
• Blood and Ash - short story by Thomas Barczak [as by Tom Barczak]
• Hellexandria the Great - short story by Sarah Hulcy
• The Knife-Edged Bridge - novelette by David L. Burkhead
• The Wager - short story by Deborah Koren
• More Light! - novelette by Bettina S. Meister
• In the Shadow of Paradise - novelette by Jason Cordova
• Zero Sum Game - novelette by Richard Groller
• And the Truth Shall Set You Free - short story by Jack William Finley
• The ITTT - short story by Michael H. Hanson
• Siegfried's Blade - [Die Nibelungen] - short story by Petra Jorns
• Stairway to Heaven - novelette by Edward McKeown [as by Ed McKeown]
• Knocking on Heaven's Gates - novelette by Larry Atchley, Jr.
• Hell Bent - short story by Janet Morris

The best, the worst, and ugliest bards in perdition vie for Satan's favor as poets slam one another, Satan's Fallen Angels smirk up their sleeves, and the illiterati have their day. Find out why the damned deserve their fates as Hell's hacks sink to new poetical depths!

Shakespeare and Marlowe write a new play for Satan and find out that in hell you can't always save your skin. The first Bible writer drafts a deal with the Devil. Attila the Hun learns his punishment's just begun. Mary Shelley and Victor Frankenstein make a monstrous mistake. Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp get their unjust deserts. Hell's Undertaker goes on holiday. The Damned Poets Society slams away. A nameless soul shows Dorothy Parker that fame is a bitch.

In the underworlds, injustice always reigns: Join us and our damnedest poets for the crookedest poetry festival in perdition where language comes to die and no rhyme goes unpunished.

Contents:

• Words - short story by Chris Morris
• Seven Against Hell - short story by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• Reunion - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Hell-hounds - short story by Bruce Durham
• The Kid with No Name - short story by Jack William Finley
• All Hell to Pay - short story by Deborah Koren
• Poetic Injustice - short story by Larry Atchley, Jr.
• When You Gaze Into An Abyss - short story by Matthew Kirshenblatt
• Pride and Penance - short story by Thomas Barczak [as by Tom Barczak]
• Grand Slam - novelette by pdmac
• Undertaker's Holiday - short story by Joe Bonadonna and Shebat Legion
• Red Tail's Corner - short story by Yelle Hughes
• Faust III - short story by Richard Groller
• Tapestry of Sorrows and Sighs - short story by Bill Snider
• Haiku d'Etat - short story by Beth W. Patterson
• A Mother's Heart - short story by Bill Barnhill
• We the Furious - novelette by Joe Bonadonna
• Damned Poets Society - short story by Michael H. Hanson
• All We Need of Hell - short story by Michael Armstrong [as by Michael A. Armstrong]
• Dress Rehearsal - short story by Janet Morris

Damned souls wail as plagues wreak havoc, doctors up their fees, snake-oil salesmen make a killing, and Satan turns his hit-man loose. Be there when Erra, the Babylonian plague god, and his seven personified weapons, spread terror throughout the underverse! Rookie authors write prescriptions for perdition, while veteran hellions diagnose the damned: Deborah Koren, Andrew P. Weston, Janet Morris, Joe Bonadonna, Matthew Kirshenblatt, Chris Morris, Michael H. Hanson, Rob Hinkle, Jack William Finley, Bill Snider, Richard Groller, Paul Freeman, Nancy Asire.

Victor Frankenstein and Quasimodo develop a vaccine -- with diabolical results... Satan looses Daemon Grim, the Devil's personal hit man, and damned souls cower... Bat Masterson finds himself caught between plague victims and Wyatt Earp... Judas learns you can't teach an old dog new sins... Calamity Jane and her Sinchester carbine defend hell's last uninfected outpost... Nietzsche and Lilith, Adam's first wife, face the Beast and come to fiendish accord... Doc Holliday tries one last gambit, and unleashes all hell's fury... And there's worse to come, even an excerpt from bestselling author Andrew P. Weston's forthcoming Heroes in Hell novel! If you think life is tough, try the afterlife, where the doctor is always wrong, sinners never win, misery runs amok, and all hell's damned get their just deserts -- eternally.

Contents:

• The Wager - short fiction by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
• The Cure - short fiction by Chris Morris
• Grim - short fiction by Andrew P. Weston
• The Right Man for the Job - short fiction by Deborah Koren
• Memory - short fiction by Nancy Asire
• What Price Oblivion? - short fiction by R. E. Hinkle
• In the Shadowlands - short fiction by Richard Groller
• Let Us Kill the Spirit of Gravity - short fiction by Matthew Kirshenblatt
• Pavlovian Slip - short fiction by Bill Snider
• Hell On a Technicality - short fiction by Joe Bonadonna
• Convalescence - short fiction by Michael H. Hanson
• Hell Noon - short fiction by Paul Freeman
• The Judas Book - short fiction by Jack William Finley
• Writer's Block - short fiction by Janet Morris
• A Moment of Clarity - short fiction by Andrew P. Weston

Avast, ye readers! Here be Pyrates! Feast yer eyes on the cursed treasures before you! Hoist the skull 'n' crossbones! Walk the plank with hell's sorest losers! Join the damnedest buccaneers and privateers ever to sail infernal seas. The depths of hell chill the boldest sinner as damned souls learn why the deeper in hell you go, the colder it gets.

Table of Contents:

• Bitter Business - Janet Morris and Chris Morris
• Pieces of Hate - Andrew P. Weston
• Evil Angel - Janet Morris and Chris Morris
• Who's a Pirate Now? - Nancy Asire
• Curse of the Pharaohs - S.E. Lindberg
• Lir's Children - Paul Freeman
• Unholiest Grail - Larry Atchley, Jr.
• The Bitter Taste of Hell's Injustice - Jack William Finley
• Serial Recall and Beautiful Tortures - Michael H. Hanson
• Drink and the Devil - Rob Hinkle
• The Pirates of Penance - Joe Bonadonna
• Muse of Fire - Janet Morris and Chris Morris
• Hell Hounds (excerpt) - Andrew P. Weston

Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools. Our damned lovers include: Christopher Marlowe and Will Shakespeare, Napoleon and Wellington, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hatshepsut and Senenmut, Abelard and Heloise, Helen and Penelope, Saint Teresa and Satan's Reaper, Madge Kendall and the Elephant Man, and more... -- all of whom pay a hellish price for indulging their affections. Shakespeare said "To be wise and love exceeds man's might," and in Lovers in Hell, the damned in hell exceed all bounds as they search for their true loves, punish the perfidious, and avoid getting caught up in Satan's snares. In ten stories of misery and madness, hell's most loveless seek to slake the thirst that can never be quenched, and find true love amid the lies of ages.

Contents:

• Love in the Afterlife, Part I; or, Never Doubt I Love - serial by Chris Morris and Janet Morris (book publication as Love in the Afterlife)
• Love Interrupted - novelette by Nancy Asire
• Lovers Sans Phalli - novelette by S. E. Lindberg
• Love in the Afterlife, Part II; or, Fume of Sighs - serial by Chris Morris and Janet Morris (book publication as Love in the Afterlife)
• Calamity - novelette by Michael E. Dellert
• Love Triangle - novelette by Michael H. Hanson
• A Hand of Four Queens - novelette by A. L. Butcher
• The Devil's Trull - novelette by Andrew P. Weston
• Withering Blights - novelette by Joe Bonadonna
• Love in the Afterlife, Part III; or, Wrath of Love - serial by Chris Morris and Janet Morris (book publication as Love in the Afterlife)
• Hell Gate (excerpt) - short fiction by Andrew P. Weston