Christian Read: 5 books

The City is rife with cults, covens and cabals. Broken-glass curses and occult rites in the back of bars. Magical symbols written in whisky and cigarette smoke. Ritual muggings and street-rat divination. Two cults have gone to war and unleashed something that doesn't belong here. Something...

In a Gothic metropolis of the Dead, a necromancer learns that secrets never die. Nil-Pray is the city of the Dead, where those who cannot rest in the grave come to exist forever. Although even the Dead find reason for strife. In the wake of a terrible world war, the ancient, solitary...

Bad times for Lark. Once, he used to work for the Library, the heaviest racket in a city filled with cults, magic and monstrosity. But a job went wrong. About as wrong as it gets and now he's alone and hunted by the freaks and sorcerers he used to police. And his old allies have turned their...

Lark messed with the Devil and paid the price. Exiled from The City, he’s wandering the land looking for safe haven. Without allies, friends, his old places of power, that seems real unlikely. So when he notices someone using his own personal sorcerous symbols, he can’t leave it be. Is someone...

Lark’s back in the City Back working as sheriff for the Library. Back from his time out with the ghosts. Aware now of who’s behind the last few years of hell. Bernadette, daughter of the Old Man, the cruelest, strongest sorcerer Lark ever went up against. Back, but not without...