Ergebnis für "First Born" in Horror

Who was the first vampire? Why do they crave blood? Why is sunlight deadly to them? Who made them immortal? It's time you learn the truth about vampires and the first born. This novelette is the first of a four-part series that explains the true origin of the first vampire and the curses placed upon its bloodline. Set in ancient Egypt during Moses's return, an Egyptian woman, Pashera, hears rumors of the final plague that the Hebrew God will cast upon the firstborn of Egypt.

The first born of the Muzina people are marked by an ancient curse. Meant to offer their mothers a chance to purge this taint, Muzina women develop strength of character and prove self-worth by sacrificing their first babe. When allowed to live, these children are set on a path of torment and ill-fortune that hounds them until they finally perish. But first born Kathiz T'Kazan does not shy away from living. He embraces all life has to offer with unquenchable hope: the father who hunts him, the mother who hides, the woman he loves, and the goddess who tempts him with dangerous power.

This collection of macabre tales of the black arts treads the dangerous landscape between this world and that populated by angels and demons, gods and devils, ghosts and spirits, and the legendary creatures of our darkest imaginings. First Born is the beginning of the journey into the Liber Monstrorum, the chronicles of those occult detectives who are the last line of defense against those preternatural forces that threaten to destroy a world that refuses to believe that such things exist...

One little mistake and Tresado's magical formula lands Group Six in a wasteland crawling with mutant monsters, a deadly disease, and creeping insanity that soon has them at each other's throats. Their rescue by the militia from Abakaar seems providential.