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The Noctiviganti Saga |
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If You Want Knowledge, Seek Out Darkness and Silence... |
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“An astonishing tour de force of noir fantasy, characterized by some of the most beautifully lyrical, atmospheric writing I've come across in a long while. Chris Thompson skilfully blends the mean streets with the streets of dreams in this highly evocative concoction, offering the reader bafflement, dazzlement, gritty hard-boiled realism, wonder and astonishment in turn - but always delight. A Season of Strange Dreams will remain in your mind long after you've turned the final page.” (John Grant, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy) |
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“C.S.Thompson summons up a darkly poetic masterpiece in A Season of Strange Dreams. Enter the life of Jim Rankin, the Nightwalker, who slips between the fabric of the dark city of Nottamun and the blackness of a dreamworld known as the Fringe. As the border of the two mysterious worlds loses definition, the Nightwalker travels through violence, memories and self-judgement to find a way to salvation. Thompson's writing is brilliant. The imagery of his words is equal to the paintings of H.R.Giger; horrible, cruel and seductive. If you enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, read A Season of Strange Dreams.” (I. Hunter, Portland, ME) |
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“There are not many authors, even in the gothic urban fantasy genres who dare to handle the darker sides of insanity and the occult as brazenly as Thompson does... |
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A Season of Strange Dreams is one of those stories that stays with you at night when you lay down to sleep. It leaves you wondering what lies behind your dreams, what battles are fought while you sleep.” (Alan Rogers) |
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So far, only the first two novels of the Noctiviganti Saga have been published. There are seven novels in the complete series: |
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A Season of Strange Dreams- Jim Rankin is Noctiviganti, a man who can visit other worlds in his dreams. Five years ago he disappeared, unable to face the horrors he found there. Now his masters are calling him back home to the city of Nottamun, a place where black magic and gangsterism go hand in hand. The place where he left the girl he loved, and where his mistake cost his best friend's life. Now he must be prepared to sacrifice his own. |
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And Then the Night- In the darkness of an abandoned building, Jim Rankin receives an instruction from his masters in the otherworld: "Go to Munro, Noctiviganti. You may wait in the dark no longer." But Munro is a city at war, where two factions of ruthless mobsters battle for power and a mysterious girl named Asturiana hunts for a secret from her past. Jim Rankin- occultist, detective and killer- will help her find what she is looking for. But Jim's only true loyalty is to the powers he serves, and anyone who stands in his way will be destroyed- even if that means Asturiana herself. |
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City of Constant Silence- An unknown disease is killing people from Boston’s Chinatown to the empty spaces of the desert Southwest. Its symptoms are different with every victim- smallpox, ebola, the Black Plague. But is it really a disease, or something else? The Chinese Triad hires Jim Rankin to find out. From the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou to a gaudy biker whorehouse on the loneliest road in America, Noctiviganti tracks the strange disease to its source. But Jim owes a debt to the Witch of Dogtown, and the solution to the mystery will mean his own destruction. |
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For Now We Wait- Something’s wrong with the Boston street kids. A strange force is taking them one by one, turning them into blank-faced dolls with no emotion or conscience. The only person who can put a stop to it is Jim Rankin, the Sleepwalker, with the help of the Night Kingdom and its emissary, Brighid. But Brighid serves the Night Kingdom, not the Paramount, and her agenda is her own. Hunted by the Underwater Kids, the police, and a pair of psychopathic gangsters, Jim and Brighid must learn to trust each other or be destroyed by the enemies that surround them. |
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Tree of a Thousand Eyes- When an eccentric tribe of outlaws is threatened by creatures from the land of nightmare, Jim Rankin is called in to investigate. In the wicked town of Fort Misery, he finds a lot more than he bargained for, from a drug-dealing Satanist named Silvio Cezar to a gun-toting desert cult and a beautiful girl named Jenny Cameron who may hold the key to the Final Dark. |
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River of Doorways- In a maximum-security federal prison, Jim Rankin waits hopelessly for the Final Dark. But the prison is just another front in the secret war. Reunited with his old partner Mark Walker, Jim confronts the Aryan Initiates and their private shaman, a necromancer named Carlos with his own dark agenda for the future. |
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Last Days of the Night Kingdom- The Final Dark is here at last, and there is no way to prevent it or even delay it. So why are the Lords of the Abyss so terrified? Set free from prison as a government agent, Jim Rankin returns to Nottamun to find out the truth. |
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Welcome to Nottamun, a city of criminals and victims, searching for revenge or one last score- or just waiting to be killed. Gothic Noir, combining hardboiled crime fiction and supernatural horror. “Disturbing and unsettling, tinged with a sense of humor as defiantly cold and dark as the grave” - Kevin Burton Smith |
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A dark fantasy of amnesia, paranoia and corruption, with elements of sword-and-sorcery, horror and surrealism. |
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