Ein Beitrag von Janet Morris
Be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell
William Shakespeare, Othello
Kur had been in hell long before the first cast-down gods and their damned worshippers took the fall; he would be here long after the last of them were gone. Kur was born here in Ki-gal, home of the indigenous tribe of hell. Golden-green sulphur tickles his nostrils, billowing down sweet and warm from the mountaintop. He breathes deeper, expanding his mighty chest, rippling the surface of the dark pool where he floats, content. Beneath his backside, tar bubbles pop, massaging his wide-spread wings, his long spiky tail. His red skin is gleaming, dusted with quills, warning all comers of his poisonous bite and his rank, highest among the tribe.
Ein Beitrag von Janet Morris
I kept seeing Almighty Kur, lying in a pool of hot tar, bubbles bursting under his backside. His wings were unfurled and I had no idea at first why he was the key image for my story. I thought about it. I had told myself to write the story of Lysicles, whod been executed in life for leading a thousand Athenians to their deaths at the Battle of Chaeronea, while his commander was exonerated of wrongdoing. Lysicles had a bone to pick. He was angry. He was the perfect character to bring before Erra and his peerless Seven, personified weapons of destruction. So who was this big red guy with the wings and the spiky tail?
Ein Beitrag von Janet & Chris Morris
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Satan was fuming, literally, when I was escorted into his office on the top floor of New Hells Hall of Injustice by Marilyn Monroe in a tight red knit dress. Aside from the devil and his desk, the huge place was empty from corbeled, cobwebby rafters to filthy marble floor. The whole office reeked of smoke. Wisps of gray smoke curled upward from his big black leathery wings, his wide maw, and leaked between his glittering fangs. His yellow eyes burned into whatever soul I have left, and hurt.
Ein Beitrag von Janet Morris
We didnt expect to end up in hell. But then, no one ever does. And wed been in hell before, for many years, conceiving, editing, and writing stories for our legendary Heroes in Hell series of shared-world anthologies and novels.
Then Wikipedia created a Heroes in Hell (HIH) page and exported it to Facebook. So now the HIH series has a Facebook page. We thought, innocently enough, that wed put a few messages there, since we were writing The Sacred Band of Stepsons series again, to direct fans to the Facebook page for our first novel in twenty years, The Sacred Band. Little did we know that the Heroes in Hell Facebook page is a portal to hell itself.
Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden
In the last few and in the forthcoming weeks we've presented and will present a lot of interviews, articles and stories around Janet and Chris Morris and their works on Tempus Thales and Heroes in Hell (with the latest incarnation of the series "Lawyers in Hell").
On this page you will find a collection of all the Links on this great series.
You'll find the way to all interviews with Janet and Chris, the one with Tempus by the Zauberspiegel-crew and the two interviews with questions, asked by Zauberspiegel-readers.
In addition there is (the German version) of a short portrait of Janet. And the forthcoming links of the presentation of the shared world anthology "Lawyers in Hell".
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