In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name Samuel M. Key. Now, beginning withAngel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.
When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway girl in the ashes of a bizarre house fire, he opens the door to a nightmare. For a sadistic experiment in terror has unleashed a dark avenging angel forged from the agonies of countless dying victims....
Charles de Lintpioneered the urban fantasy genre with critically acclaimed novels and stories set in and around the imaginary modern North American city of Newford:
The Onion Girl,
Moonheart,
The Ivory and the Horn, and the collection
Moonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels are
Mulengro,
Into the Green, and
The Little Country.
One of the most original fantasy writers currently working . Booklist
The best of the post-King contemporary fantasists, the one with the clearest vision of the possibilities of magic in a modern setting. Orson Scott Card