{"product_id":"2940014241243","title":"King of the Nine Hells","description":"One of the Scariest Books You Will Ever Open -- Writer's Digest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the time of the Dark Ages. A gravedigger toiling in the moor late one night assembles a grotesque book by the light of a torch. Its papyrus pages are bound to the wood of a Sorcerer's Tree. Once finished, the book helps the man become the head of the most powerful – and most feared – family in Scotland. Fifteen hundred years later, a dishonest bookstore proprietor attends a book sale held far from his place of business in London. There he sees and steals a nearly ancient book with a title that links it directly to hell. But he has no real idea of what he has just done, what it really is... possessed...demonic...a book that can see and hear those around it...a book that will grant its reader anything he wants if it so chooses no matter how gluttonous or vile the request, no matter who gets hurt or who dies. And for those that do die, how they die cannot be explained by any science known to man...their deaths coming even to scare police forensic investigators. The one that buys the tome of near antiquity is an Oxford University professor...an expert in the occult but also an expert in theology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Within hours of owning the book, Dr. Peter Ashford sees his wife nearly killed by it. He saves her at the moment before her last breath. Now, with no choice but to attempt to destroy it, Peter is thrust into combat against two antagonists...one human, one not. And barring his way to eliminating the terrible book are mysterious clues, codes, cryptograms, maps, evil images, a cloud that never moves, a man with green eyes, revenants, a haunted castle perched on a high cliff overlooking the waters of the western coast of Scotland and stone statues that come to life. Worst of all, Peter learns that hidden in the book is a terrible secret. If a reader discovers and unlocks it, he will unleash on earth the most powerful being of hell that is not Satan. And right behind him will be seventy-two legions of demonic jackals. Humans that resist will be devoured. Humanity's only hope for rescue, Peter is nearly killed several times in the story. His wife is killed, murdered by a demon, as he races to prevent this looming satanic Armageddon featuring one of the most frantic endings in literary history.","brand":"Dean Klein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174739525872,"sku":"2940014241243","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014241243_p0.jpg?v=1763947276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014241243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}