They are your friends and neighbors, your teachers and your lovers. They are the beautiful ones, the ones alone, aloof. The ones living on the edges of society. The ones you suspect the least. The spawn of an unholy union between the mortal and the profane, they have taken the art of blood-drinking--and murder--to chilling new heights. And they are about to inherit the earth. They are slayers. And they have never questioned the creed of their work, nor challenged the words of their elders, until now...until him... Prepare to hunt the hunteReader's Praise for SLAYER: "From the moment I started reading this novel, I knew I would not be able to put it down. This book, in my opinion, rivals such great novelists as Anne Rice...I can hardly wait for the next book to come out! I recommend it to all my friends. If you've got an interest in the dark side, and the macabre, this is the book for you." -- Joyce, Ontario, Canada "This book rocks! It's written so well. Haven't seen it's like since The Crow. Most excellent read." -- Missy, New Zealand "This devilish slice of carnal bloodlust which I devoured entertained and enthralled me...I dare to ask for more and submit myself to this horror once more. In time my body will recover from this fear but my soul is forever captured in this bloodlust of SLAYER." -- R. Z.

Slayer

Literature & Fiction

Koehler, Karen

Genre Fiction

Xlibris, Corp.

Since antiquity, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed a relationship between the arts; modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. Published in two volumes, The Built Surface offers a series of essays in which the authors reverse this trend and examine cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories.

The Built Surface, 2-volume set

Arts & Photography

Anderson, Christy

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Hunter 
His name is Alek Knight. He is tall and beautiful...and a master assassin. His raven black hair is worn long to symbolize his status in the Coven, his cult of Vatican-trained, vampire-slaying allies. He is a master swordsman, a prodigy even among ancients. And for good reason: he is one of the rare and deadly dhampiri--an evolved form of the creature we know of today as Vampire. Alek possesses an almost supernatural talent for slaying vampires and his weapon of choice is the legendary Double Serpent Katana, an ancient sword forged by master swordsman Hattori Hanzo for the Japanese Ninja class over 400 years ago. 
The Hunted 
Once Alek was the most powerful acolyte of the ancient Covenmaster Amadeus. Once he was heir to the seat of Covenmaster. Then the sins of his past returned to haunt him and drove him to betray his master and all he once believed in. Haunted by undying sorrow and the many murders he committed in the Coven's name, Alek turned on his fellow slayers and became a rogue determined to discover the true purpose of his existence. Now he lives in the shadows of the city by night, hunted by an army of immortal soldiers who seek his blood in exchange for his betrayal. The war is coming, the battle lines are drawn...may the best immortal win.

Contemporary

KHP Industries

The blade is back, and you're only 42 inches from hell... Slayer: Black Miracles brings together two spellbinding novellas by acclaimed industrial gothic author Karen Koehler, creator of the tormented dhampir and vampire hunter Alek Knight. Slayer: Dragon’s Blood Two years after destroying his Coven, Alek is rebuilding his life and facing new challenges. A chance encounter with a desperate young woman on the run leads the Slayer to an ancient evil that's devouring the city one soul at a time. The Slayer's darkness grows once again, and he turns it toward a new enemy--an enemy that will soon learn the depth of his fury...and feel the bite of his immortal blade. Slayer: Immortal Alek believed he would never find another lost soul like himself. A soul born from pain and neverending sorrow. A soul who could know and embrace the creed of the predator. Then he encountered the Phoenix, a creature as beautiful as she is deadly. But Phoenix has her own agenda. Having risen from an untimely death, she is a newborn creature with only one goal in her immortal life--to pay back the streets for her deathless rage.

Slayer Black Miracles

Lord of the Damned 
Call him Scarabus. Call him the Damned. For over three thousand years the demon known as Scarabus has waged a one-man war on the cult of mad zealots who created him. Able to command the elements around him and change his shape at will, he can appear as a beautiful young man--or as a swarm of bloodthirsty insects. Scarabus exists immortal in time and space, lord of darkness, servant to none. 
Now things are changing. Things are becoming. The once proud and loveless demon has grown weary of his endless nights of murder and wandering. In his own words comes the history of a being with no life--and no death. Journey with Scarabus through the dark veil of years, from the lush beauty of Ancient Middle Kingdom Egypt to the decadent nightclub splendor of 21st Century Chicago as he walks the night, searching for the woman he loves, searching for an escape from a living damnation on earth. 
Scarabus the Damned. Scarabus, Deathbringer. A man who is a monster, he hopes to salvage his lost soul and take revenge on those who destroyed his life. 
Every man lives. Not every man truly dies… 
From the best-selling author of Slayer.

Scarabus

Femme Fatale... Once Janna was a brilliant athlete and champion who dedicated her life to avenging the victims of her home planet's holocastic war. Then she became a victim herself, her face and body destroyed beyond recovery or recognition by sadistic warmongers. They thought she was dead. They thought they had destroyed her for all time. They were wrong. Something survived to pull itself from the smoke and ashes of ruin. Now Janna, as much machine as woman, has returned to punish the guilty and the unrepentant. The Maiden is rising to unleash her fury on all those who remain, and all those who are responsible. The arena has changed, for her enemies have arrived on Earth, bringing their intergalactic grudge match to our world. Now Janna is coming for them--and anyone else who stands in her way. An unholy creation with only one prerogative in her unnatural life: take revenge or die trying. And now all the Hail Marys in the world won't save you. #1 in a hot new science fiction series by the acclaimed author of Slayer, Slayer: Black Miracles and Scarabus!

Out of the Ashes (The Maiden)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Unholy Trinity... A rogue warrior hunted by an army of immortal soldiers...a demon prince newly arisen from the ashes of his own death...a dangerous girl whose power can unlock the destiny of the entire world. Three lost souls bound together by fate are about to learn that passion and pain are forever... In this ambitious, lush and electrically erotic third installment in the now-infamous industrial gothic Slayer series, horror newcomer Karen Koehler cuts her vampire teeth on the longest and most compelling Slayer novel to date. Kill the lights, draw your sword, and prepare to hunt the hunter. The Black Death Books best-selling series.

Slayer: Stigmata

In a city ravaged by crime and submerged in fear lies an underworld more horrific than anyone has ever imagined. Now the horror has emerged into the daylit world. Our world. And the hunter has become the hunted. 
Nothing you have ever read...nothing you have ever seen...nothing in this world can prepare you for the world of Slayer... 
The Hunter 
His name is Alek Knight. He is tall and beautiful...and a master assassin. His raven black hair is worn long to symbolize his status in the Coven, his cult of Vatican-trained, vampire-slaying allies. He is a master swordsman, a prodigy even among ancients. And for good reason: he is one of the rare and deadly dhampiri--an evolved form of the creature we know of today as Vampire. Alek possesses an almost supernatural talent for slaying vampires and his weapon of choice is the legendary Double Serpent Katana, an ancient sword forged by master swordsman Hattori Hanzo for the Japanese Ninja class over 400 years ago. 
The Hunted 
Once Alek was the most powerful acolyte of the ancient Covenmaster Amadeus. Once he was heir to the seat of Covenmaster. Then the sins of his past returned to haunt him and drove him to betray his master and all he once believed in. Haunted by undying sorrow and the many murders he committed in the Coven's name, Alek turned on his fellow slayers and became a rogue determined to discover the true purpose of his existence. Now he lives in the shadows of the city by night, hunted by an army of immortal soldiers who seek his blood in exchange for his betrayal. The war is coming, the battle lines are drawn...may the best immortal win.

Ungodly terror... 
The scrape of metal, the creak of ancient joints too long unused. These are the sounds that echo against the darkened walls of the Iron Angel music club when Azazel, the Lord of Hell, stirs in his ancient slumber. Then comes another: a shriek of black agony as the darkest angel of all takes yet another blood sacrifice. For centuries no mortal soul has heard these noises and lived--no one until Amy Perry. Wounded and seeking, she tries to lose herself amidst the mass bauhaus of the club, but instead finds herself caught up in an ancient battle beyond her human comprehension. Armed only with the wisdom of a pain-riddled mage, an ancient weapon, and her own scattered wits, Amy must hold back the forces of night while battling the demons within. 
Only one lost soul can defeat the Shredder of Human Souls, and despite her horror, despite her reluctance, despite the fact that it may cost Amy her immortal soul, she must salvage the world from Azazel's hellish tide of unspeakable evil.

Shredder: Iron Angel

"Read this book!" –James A. Moore, author of Blood Red An all-new Slayer collection featuring the novellas "Sins of the Father" and "The Hyde Effect" by acclaimed industrial gothic author Karen Koehler, plus a never-before-released bonus story, "The Sign of Six" featuring the Slayer Alek Knight. SINS OF THE FATHER It began with blood, death and a cryptic missive to the police carved with eerie precision into the flesh of a victim’s body. What it became was a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between an elusive nightstalker and the determined hunters set to his trail. Paranormal investigator January Blackburn knew instinctively that they were dealing with no ordinary killer—and that the stalker’s reign of terror on the velvety night streets of Chicago had only just begun. As death followed unspeakable death, Blackburn became ever more enmeshed in an investigation that would test the very limits of her psychic skills, while Scarletti, her new and frustratingly eccentric partner, worked at testing the farthest limits of her patience! But despite his contemptuous nature, Dorian Scarletti had knowledge of an underworld beyond mortal understanding, knowledge gleamed over centuries during which he’d mastered his own fantastic powers. And unless he and Blackburn worked together to find the key to the killer’s twisted logic, the ancient force of chaos which had been loosened on their world would continue to consume the city one unsuspecting soul at a time... THE HYDE EFFECT A body slashed to pieces. A handful of wolf hairs. A murderer who possesses animal savagery as well as cunning human intelligence. These are Blackburn and Scarletti’s only clues to the latest wholesale slaughter going on in the busy industrial backstreets of Boston by night. Their investigation of the increasingly violent crimes leads them to Dante’s, a downtown nightclub that caters to werewolves, and its owner, the ever-enigmatic Legion. But Legion and his people are crying innocent even as the rest of the city cries wolf. And as the bodies begin to pile up and the city slides into a state of mass panic, Blackburn and Scarletti find themselves infiltrating an underworld full of beasts and men, where it’s difficult to tell one from the other. "Okay, please ignore the shaking & sweating...I seem to be having withdrawal symptoms. You see, I'm addicted to Blackburn & Scarletti." —Horror-Web "Koehler blows the dust off this tired genre with some fierce prose, instantly likable characters and three truly original, yet connected, tales..." —The Horror Fiction Review

The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries Volume I

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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Slayer

The Built Surface, 2-volume set

Slayer

Slayer Black Miracles

Scarabus

Out of the Ashes (The Maiden)

Slayer: Stigmata

Slayer

Shredder: Iron Angel

The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries Volume I