Bücher der Reihe The Magicians

A feast of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series. Note this is the text version and this book is also available a audio book.Starting with * Star CrossedA NoveletteThe Necromantor, the King of Doom meets his match with a grey alien diplomat's sister Mookaite Ga her brother tries to break them up not because of racism but because he's a jinx because all women he loves die according to the drunk Masked Chicken. They have Romeo and Juliet relationship. It all goes wrong when the press turns up and the secret lovers are caught revealing the existence of aliens and their relationship. Will it help or hinder their relationship? The book ends with The Requiem a short story where the ghost of one the Magicians goes to his own funeral drunk.Most of the stories have a gothic dark fantasy or horror feel. The order of the book here:StarcrossedThe Cult of DeathThe Innocent KillerThe GrudgeThe Last DanceLeft for deadDanse MacabreFetchAlien invasionSurrender offers rest, But I'd die for peaceBrokenHell is Empty and All the Devils Are HereThe Necromancer goes to jailJasper's FateThe Emperor is dead, long live the KingThe requiem

Reworked Omnibus of stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series, such as this Dark Fantasy-Gothic short story;The Locket And The ThiefWhat if you lost the last physical thing that reminds you of a lost beloved child through theft, and it happens to be found upon the body of the now dead thief, and it is now in the hands of the police would you if you had access to would you take it back? Is stealing back your own stolen thing, really theft or is it? This is the situation where this coroner, Blake, finds himself in.On a lonely quiet misty night after midnight in Melbourne, anything can happen and it did. At that hour, only the reckless and unprincipled wander around.On such a night as this, a straggler from a theatre was wandering in the cool calming night remembering a lost daughter who he'd lost many years ago on a night like this. This day, to be exact, 28 years earlier. She was murdered with her husband as they walked the street he was in. He came as he always did this night to lay a rose for them. He did so unbothered, for all the times he had come. Before that night. He pulled out an old locket and looked at it sadly and opened it, looking at the pictures inside it. They were his daughter and her husband. The father pulled a red rose from his inside coat pocket and lay the rose on the wet road. As the father knelt laying the rose there was a noise nearby on the road like a splash in the puddle, he looked up and saw a man with a gun trained on him.

An omnibus collection of some of the stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series.Including Memento MoriThe unnamed Mortimer, the king of the Grim Reapers, tells the story of how he promised to protect the son of a friend who died long before the Magicians came out.He appears to him as a friend when the son's relatives die at their funeral, and as a friend when he needs one.He becomes the ultimate Memento Mori.An adventure of a lifetime.