House Infernal (Mass Market Paperback)

by Edward Lee (Author)
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The diabolical adventure never ended-it's only just begun. Finally, Part III of Edward Lee's notorious, internationally published City Infernal Saga is here. Lee dares you to take another tour through the nightmarish City of the Abyss, and to walk with him though a house of horror, a house of graves...a house infernal.

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A CITY, BUILT WITH BLOOD AND BONES...

Three things are about to join a crypt in Hell with a house on Earth... Nuns molested and drained of blood. A virginal student seduced by the perverse and taunted by things worse than ghosts. And six Angels, imprisoned in Hell and made pregnant by God knows what...

A HOUSE, BUILT FOR THE CHURCH, BUT DESIGNED BY SATAN...

When Venetia Barlow begins work at St. John's Prior House, she expects a quiet summer of drudgery and boredom. But soon she's haunted by lurid desires and visions of a city full of monsters...and the monsters know her name. Is the house really a place of meditation and worship, or is it a temple of abomination and the most evil secrets? Venetia will only find out, when the voice of a long-dead priest comes into her head and gives her a an unspeakable message from the howling, blood-drenched streets of Hell...

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 369 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (October 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843958065
• ISBN-13: 978-0843958065
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #612,865 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Are you ready to go back to Hell, November 28, 2007

By	Dennis Duncan (Greenfield, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews

Welcome to Memphistopolis the great city of Hell built by Satan. The stretches endlessly, and it is were the souls of the Damned spend their eternity. In a pitch black sky hangs a red sickle moon that's shines over this evil city were nothing but suffering exist. Clock towers have no hands because time doesn't exist in this hideous city. Demons prowl streets made of Rot looking for damned to torture. Monstrous creatures live in the depths of seas made of blood looking for flesh to devour. Golems stand watch in smoking alleys, while gargoyles prowl the ledges of mile-high skyscrapers made of crushed bone. Anyone who is condemned to the place lives a eternity of torment and despair. Abandon all hope upon entering here.

Venetia Barlow is about to begin working at St. John's Prior House in hopes of one day becoming a nun. She expects nothing but hard work and boredom over the summer. but soon she's haunted by dark visions of a city full of monsters that know her name. She will soon find out that the prior house isn't a place of meditation and worship. Its a temple of evil with a very dark history and the dark forces that inhabit this place has something in store for her that will change her life forever.

House Infernal is the third installment in Lee's Infernal series. I loved his previous installments so my hopes were high when I started reading House. Lee has never disappointed me and House Infernal was no exception. The story takes off with a bang and and never lets up. I found myself staying up to the crack of dawn on a couple occasions consumed in this story. I could not put this book down.

House Infernal has loads of action and gore along with very memorable characters. Lee introduces us to lots of new characters, but he also brings some back from his earlier works. Fans of Bighead, Slither, and the Infernal series cant miss this one. A lot of old storylines get tied together in House Infernal. Lee is the King of Hardcore Horror and House Infernal is one of his best to date. I cant wait for his next installment in this series. I could go on and on but I will end by saying that if you are a Lee fan you owe it to yourself to go grab a copy. You will not be disappointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I love this series!!, March 23, 2009

By	J.Bostick (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

you need to read Slither first to understand what happens in this book. a great read, what I now expect from this author.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected., July 31, 2008

By	W. Lowe "Wesley Lowe" (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I looked forward to reading this book having read the author's earlier work: The Messenger, which was horror at its purest complete with murder and mayhem that treated the reader to subtle peeks into the terrifying realm of the eternally damned known as Hell. Not so this novel.

Switching the points of view between the living world on Earth and Hell, "House Infernal" seemed to be two genres in one book: one half sophisticated adult murder mystery and one half children's fantasy adventure. There were times when I could have believed that the main charatcers' travels through Hell and its urbanized districts were written by J.K. Rowling as the events and descriptions were reminiscent of Harry Potter's experiences at Hogwarts, only with a slightly darker tone. I also found the main antagonist being called "your malevolence" and "my most abhorrent lord" by his servants to be particularly cartoonish.

This book could have been a novel truly worthy of the horror genre if the damned were made up of people who had chosen the wrong religion in their lives, or no religion at all instead of being made up of just murderers, rapists and so on. I thought he might depict God as being as petty, egotistical, and as malevolent as he is portrayed in the Old Testament, a terrifying concept in itself. Lee could have gone further into examining the psychological impact of one realizing that he has just been damned to dwell for eternity within a supernatural realm of torture as well.

Another disappointment was that the damned in the author's version of Hell were just residents forced to live in miserable conditions, a bit too mild for a horror novel if you ask me. They might as well have been damned to Africa. I was expecting to read about countless millions of condemned souls shrieking in searing agony within oceans of fire and lava forever and ever as was implied in Lee's earlier book: The Messenger. But I guess that would be too politically incorrect in this age of benignity and human rights.