A man awakens in Hell where he is schooled in the ways of the damned. And once educated, he is released to wander Hell on his own. He journeys from one city to the next, dodging demon patrols and avenging angels hunting the damned for sport. Along the way to the city of Oblivion, he discovers a band of rebellious damned have left a tortured and beautiful demon to rot. He rescues her and sets in motion a series of events that could lead to the final battle between Heaven and Hell, angel and demon, demon and damned. LETTERS FROM HADES is a travelogue of Hell - a world not that far from the very world we live in now. It is a story of rebellion, a story of love and a story of hope and rebirth set in a beautifully dark and textured world brought to brilliant life by Jeffrey Thomas, the acclaimed author of PUNKTOWN. LETTERS FROM HADES is packed with over 30 scratchboard illustrations by Erik Wilson.

Librarian's Note: Alternate Edition: isbn: 1937128172 isbn 13: 9781937128173 Hades is in upheaval. The Damned are rebelling, and worse, the more human-like breeds of Demons are beginning to sympathize with their plight. The Creator Himself decides to venture into Hades to address this conflict, a conflict which may test His very sanity...and make him a target of assassination. Against this tense background, a Damned man named Frank Lyre and a beautiful winged Demon named Oni act out a passionate love affair, but they too will be swept into a battle that may decide the future of all Creation.

IF THE DEAD COULD SPEAK FROM THE AFTERLIFE, WHAT MIGHT THEY TELL US? HOW MIGHT THEY WARN US? The Damned have stories to share... — About an abandoned Demon child, adopted by a reluctant mother. —A Demon torn between love for his mate and an Angel visiting Hell. —A jaded Angel touring hell to hunt the Damned for sport. —Three Damned laborers who encounter a cat with nine afterlives. —A Damned artist summoned to Heaven to paint her masterpiece. A Damned man and an Angel joining forces to rescue a child from his Demonic captors. —A former journalist who discovers the depth of despair and the hope of rebellion. Seven dispatches from the Hades of Jeffrey Thomas, author of Letters From Hades and Ugly Heaven/Beautiful Hell. "If there is such a place as hell, the demons hve a suite reserved in Jeffrey Thomas' name for writing this delightfully blsphemous novel." — F.Paul Wilson, author of Bloodline "Jeffrey Thomas' visions of Hell in Letters From Hades are as compelling and as beautifully horrific as any ever put down on paper." —Jeff VanderMeer, author of An Afterword "I can't rave enough about Jeffrey Thomas' Letters From Hades. This is a stupendous reading from beginning to end!" —Charlee Jacob, author of Dark Moods

"The Fall of Hades" is the shocking new novel and sequel to "Letters From Hades!" A HELLISH TOUR DE FORCE OF THE IMAGINATION A young woman emerges from a catatonic state to find herself naked and devoid of memory, a centuries-long prisoner of an apocalyptic battle between formerly human avenging Angels, rebel bands of the Damned, and monstrous Demons of every description. With only a sentient, talking gun for a companion, she sets out to explore a radically transfigured Hell, her own surprising past, and the bulletproof fierceness of the human spirit "The Fall of Hades" is a shocking and subversive journey into a post-industrial cyber-inferno, from the author of "Beautiful Hell," "Voices from Hades," and the cult novel "Letters from Hades," about which Jeff VanderMeer said, "Jeffrey Thomas' visions of Hell...are as compelling and as beautifully horrific as any ever put down on paper."