Limbus Inc Book II
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“The world is a stage, life is a play, and we are the puppets. It’s better not to ask who pulls the strings.”
How lucky do you feel?
That question echoed through the world’s underground, scrawled on bathroom walls, spray-painted across subway tunnel exits, written on paper that fluttered through bleak side-streets in the winter wind, printed on cheap business cards tacked to corkboard displays in darkened hallways. But always beneath one name—Limbus.
Matthew Sellers revealed the truth of Limbus, Inc. to the world, and in his tales of time travelers, intergalactic beings, and human sacrifice, he thought he had told it all. But the story of the shadowy employment agency that operates on the edge of the abyss, always finding the perfect person for the perfect job—no matter what the cost—had only begun.
This shared-world anthology continues the story of Limbus, Inc., as told by five masters of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. But beware, for once you learn the truth of Limbus, Inc., your world will never be the same. So it's time to ask yourself . . .
How lucky do you feel?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A highly unorthodox employment agency (first seen in 2013's Limbus, Inc.) returns in this shared-world anthology of five hardboiled horror-noir tales from bestselling and Stoker-winning contributors. Whether inspired by Emily Dickinson (Harry Shannon's "Zero at the Bone" ) or Edgar Rice Burroughs (Joe R. Lansdale's "Fishing for Dinosaurs"), the stories feature shattered people offered a chance to recover their lives if they accept the weird and dangerous jobs that Limbus brokers. One helps the victim of a long-cold fatal hit-and-run accident to find justice ("Lost and Found" by Joe McKinney); another gives someone a complete career makeover as a mercenary ("The Transmigration of Librarian Blaine Evans" by Gary A. Braunbeck). The plots threaten to veer out of control, as in Jonathan Maberry's closing short novel "Three Guys Walk into a Bar," in which natural and synthetic werewolves face off, but the combination of humor (Maberry's werewolf ex-cop PI enjoys Downton Abbey) and tragedy will hold the reader.
