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Heroes in Hell #16

Dreamers in Hell

Name: Dreamers in Hell
Rating: 4.63 (94 reviews)
Author: Janet E. Morris

Janet E. Morris June 13, 2013

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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 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….

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