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Neptejte se komu zvoní zvonec, prostě vemte roha! Samuel Johnson versus ďábel, 2. kolo SAMUEL JOHNSON, kterého známe z knížky Brána do pekla, je zase v průšvihu. Démon v kůži paní Abernathyové usiluje o pomstu, protože rozhodně ještě nestrávil, jak se mu posledně nevydařila jeho pekelná invaze do světa lidí. On (či snad ona?) a ďábelská pekelná armáda si na Samuela znovu brousí zuby, a jelikož vědci na Zemi opět tak úplně nemají věci pod kontrolou, dostává odporná paní Abernathyová druhou šanci: Samuela a jeho věrného přítele jezevčíka Boswella to tentokrát vcucne do pekelné brány. Jenže dostat Samuela není vůbec snadné. Paní Abernathyová totiž nepočítá s vynalézavostí a odvahou malého chlapce – o jezevčíkovi nemluvě – a nadto ji překvapí oddanost Samuelova pekelného přítele, beznadějného démona Baldriána. Ba co víc, vůbec nečeká, že Samuel s Boswellem nebudou jedinými pozemšťany, kteří se ocitli v pekle, takže jí plány zkříží ještě parta malých sveřepých mužíčků.

The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitably drawn to Charlie Parker's doorstep desperate for redemption and revenge. Despite the danger that his chosen profession imposes on his wife and newborn daughter, Parker knows that the woman and her troubles cannot be ignored. As always, he is driven as much by the evil that simmers in the hidden honeycomb world as he is by the ties of friendship and blood. As Parker gets closer to the girl's captors, he discovers that her disappearance is linked to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel -- an object considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.

Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue... Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident.She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting. To the Land of Lost Things. For anyone who loved THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and for all readers who enjoy dark, beautifully written fables that explore the heart of the human condition: love, loyalty and sacrifice.