Tales Of Old New Orleans: The Dark, Fantastic Worlds Of Louis Ellenwood Barlowe (en Inglés)
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Paul Dijon's New Orleans The New Orleans of these stories is one that has never existed. It is a fatalistic fantasy realm of fog-shrouded streets with strange-eyed otherworldly entities stalking its unsuspecting citizens.It is wetly glistening; cobbled paths and alleyways are aglow with the sulfuric incandescence of sputtering gaslights, pale red stars, and a stark, ever-present and balefully gloating moon.Mysterious ghostly figures lurk in the shattered ruins of her abandoned antebellum plantations, flitting and flickering between her ghastly white mausoleums that jut up like stark bones from the blood-soaked earth. Enter Paul Dijon, a fearless avenger, as stalwart and tireless as John Henry, and as tragically powerful as Heracles. He is relentlessly heroic, with the heart of a lion, and the battle savagery of an apex predator. He is also a gentle giant, hazel-eyed and caramel-skinned with dark, tightly curled hair, and an indefatigable, unstoppable will when aroused to combat.Paul is the unmoving and incorruptible bulwark between the worlds of humanity and the shadowy cold realms of the Old Ones. Son of an archangel and a powerful practitioner of white voodoo magic, he polices and protects the Crescent City and the world at large from all such incursions, no matter how ancient, evil, or dark. Paul Dijon, called 'Son of Fire' and his companions defend the earthly realm from this side, while his angelic father maintains the balance between it and the Dark Domains that exists between the cold dead stars, the dwelling place of the Old Ones. Follow his astounding forays in twelve tales of high adventure, with heroes, demons, angels & villains aplenty! The locale for these yarns is sprawled across the known world, starting out from New Orleans, to the marbled mosques of the Ottoman Empire, from the ruins of Ancient Mexico, to the unforgiving sands of the Sahara, and all points beyond.
