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✥ BEINGS: Magician, angels, demons, vampires, monsters, alchemists, Nazi skin-heads, alchemist, Lucifer and Beelzebub, zombies, zombie plague, half-human-angel (Nephilim‎), talking head, diva devil, monsters, fallen angels, deities, Jack the Ripper', ghosts, serial-killer ghost, archdemons, old gods, naiads, werewolves, hellhounds,, , , Max Overdrive: A video store Stark's main source of income.“Downtown”: convergent version of L.A.Chateau Marmont: Super-luxe hotel a giant white castle on a green hill.Bamboo House of Dolls: bar where Stark (and much of the magical community in LA) likes to go.Literature/Sandman Slim - Television Tropes & Idioms.~ Shorts: Stories | Richard Kadrey Themes, Motifs, Symbolism

Present-tense first person voice told by James Stark.Revenge tale as central plot in Urban Fantasy.But when Stark’s first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head that belongs to the first of the circle, a sleazy video store owner named Kasabian, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than he counted on, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future. Though nearly everything has changed, one constant remains: his friend Vidocq, a 200-year-old Frenchman who has been keeping vigil for the young magician’s return. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle-led by the conniving and powerful Mason Faim-that stole his life.

Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. ✥ Sandman Slim - (2009-2013) Publisher: When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown-to Hell-where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan’s fallen angels. Great news for fans of Warren Ellis, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Simon R. Lovecraft, part Christopher Moore, part Jim Butcher, and totally, unabashedly dark, twisted, and hilarious. Spellbinding, utterly remarkable tale of a vengeful magician/hitman’s return from hell is part H.P.