Bøger af Dick Jones

A wonderful collection of vignettes formulated to show how very creative God can be as he performs miracles in our lives. Many of the stories have an element of surprise, not to Him, but to us....

Alice in Wonderland meets first person shooter, if played by Lovecraft. They dug too deep. Ancient ruins discovered in one of the deepest mines on the planet. A cyclopean city hiding a far older secret: An evil beyond time and space. A thing from beyond the stars. A slumbering god: Nemik, the Vile One. He of a Thousand Spikes. Destroyer, eater, corrupter of worlds. Imprisoned in his own hideous, undying form. Secured by ancient magic, traps, and a massive door with a grisly locking mechanism. Beneath a pit capped by the largest carved stone ever discovered. A capstone atop which sits the giant stature of a kidnapped angel. A memorial to a winged queen dragged to her doom below. All precautions against fools who would wish to awaken a god. Enter modern man, with his knowledge, technology, firepower, and hubris. Plagued by nightmares after breaching the enormous capstone, various intellectuals are brought in to discover the cause, along with a badass marine to deal with it when they find it. But how does one kill a god? Join Corporal Jerome Bigsby, aka Bigs; scholar Gregory Welsh, aka Welshy; and Colonel Vergil Kane, head of the militarized mining operation, as they give it a go in this fantasy fueled story full of action, horror, and fun. A tale that will take you to the vilest place imaginable: the sleeping mind of Nemik himself. Enter the nightmare.

In English property law, "Ancient Lights" refers to an easement on natural light: windows that have been around for more than 20 years may not be blocked. In Dick Jones' Ancient Lights, windows admit light of fierce intensity, undimmed by the passing of decades and the rampant growth of contemporary distractions, and colored by the poet's personal or ancestral framing. The effect can be dazzling.