Alexander Collas's Blog - Posts Tagged "lucifer"

One of the most common questions I’m asked is why, as an atheist, I chose to write a series of books using the Christian mythos. The answer is complicated but straightforward. The deities of the Christian mythos are widely known. Regardless of the reader's relationship with this mythos, most bring their own baggage and preconceptions with them to the series. This allows me to use the pages of the book to tell my story instead of building an entirely original history and power structures for the creatures contained within. As an example, all I have to say is Lucifer, and most readers, for good or ill, fill in the rest of his background based upon their own relationship with this deity. Feeling strongly that every story has two sides I wanted to examine a more logical and less fatalistic telling of how the living could fit into greater maturations of these commonly accepted gods. Personally, I felt it would be an exciting examination of the belief system of which I’d been raised and later rejected.

I am proud to announce the second book in "The Family Morningstar" series is now available in both print and digital copies. You can pick up your copy on Amazon or at the Death Nail Media store. I encourage you to check out the Death Nail Media store since all books are 20% cheaper than on Amazon since there is no middle man to pay.

Also at the Death Nail Media store you can get the digital version of the book in one of three formats, .MOBI, .EPUB, or .PDF, making them viewable on a wider array of devices.

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Lucifer's gift after the Great War to those who followed him was the ability to procreate, the very thing the war had been fought over. As Hell grew, The Fallen began their new lives and started raising families. The Dark Lord was no different. His Great-Grandchild, Xia Morningstar, one of the most feared and hated creatures in all of Creation was uncontrollable, but then no one tried for he was The Dark Lord's most prized possession. As great as Lucifer's love for Xia was, so in equal was his mother's hatred of her son. In Xia's eyes, his needs were simple; he wanted to learn who his Father was and the location of the twin sister, taken away at birth. As the years went by and the rift between mother, the Mesopotamian deity Lamashtu, and son grew, she devised a plan to expel her troublesome spawn from Hell. She succeeded and in doing so unleashed upon the nine Creations the most notorious creature in The Father's realms. Here continues the story of Xia and his human minion Sam as they hunt for the secrets both Hell and The Host do not want them to have.

Here continues the journals of Keith Aderwilde, the soul consigned to chronical his travels through Hell. In these entries we will visit the Planes of Blasphemy and Violence as well as the Creations discarded by The Father to the Void. Keith's travels have revealed to him the secrets The Host wished to hide. How their distain for the living since The Father's disappearance has festered until only a few of the trillions of souls who die are ever allowed to enter The Eternal City. How most, regardless of their devotion, fall prey to the contradictory rules set by The Host thus dooming them to an eternity as the playthings of Hells Demons and Damned. Keith is now forced into making hard decisions as he prepares to rescue his lover Usis from the clutches of the Overlord of Violence. With his travel companions and advisors, Keith must devise a way to confront one of Lucifer's most vicious Generals, Leviathan, on his own plane where eternal war is the reward for souls whose lives traveled the highways of brutality and hate. Keith, by orders of Lucifer, cannot deviate from his duties as Hell's journalist and therefore must first complete his visit of the Plane of Blasphemy before he can move on to rescue his companion. On Blasphemy he will encounter the avatars of Death and Life. He will learn what becomes of those who forsake The Father's gift of a flesh and blood for that of technology.

Here begins the conclusion of the widely successful series Journal of a Deadman. We welcome you again into the realms of The Dark Lord to experience Hell through the eyes of a simple mortal who has been thrust into the politics of Eternity where both Hell and The Host are in constant conflict over the dominion of the nine Creations.

This is Alexander Collas ninth novel. Both his series, Journal of a Deadman and The Family Morningstar, have received both adulation and infamy for taking on the subjects of God, Lucifer and Eternity from a different point of view and bringing into question the accepted paradigms handed down over the last two thousand years. These books are graphic, controversial and deal in topics often skirted by other authors.