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Simon Dark and Virgil Matter never planned to fight monsters. Then a demon moved into the basement across the street.
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Simon and Virgil live in a town where weird things have started to happen: zombies in the graveyard, sea monsters in the lake. Across three books, two hapless young men take on demons, an elemental cult, and shadow monsters, discover magic of their own, and fight to save the city of Templar.
Book One
Local slackers Simon Dark and Virgil Matter don't know anything about demons, and they don't know anything about magic. But when they go poking at the all-powerful demon living in Mrs. Grunberg's basement, Templar suddenly needs heroes, and with a sharp young empath and a cantankerous old wizard on their side, they just might send it back to hell. Or they'll be blinked out of existence trying.
Book Two
Every few hours, a woman in a purple cloak calls down a column of lightning on Templar, and it leaves nothing behind but mummified victims and scorched earth. Her magic is unlike anything Simon and Virgil have faced, and even Llewyn, a centuries-old mage of the Seventh Order, has never seen anything like it. Then the guys lose their closest allies, and stopping her before the whole city turns to ash is up to them.
Book Three
The Shadow Lord is bringing the fight straight to Dark Matter Investigations, and his plan involves vanishing mansions, shadow soldiers, and a subway line draining a suspicious amount of power. With Llewyn trapped powerless in an ice prison, the only one who might help is the legendary evil sorceress Morgan le Fay. And Simon can't shake the feeling that something is different about Virgil…
After centuries of slumber, an ancient evil is stirring beneath a small, strange Midwestern town, and the locals are starting to act very, very wrong. Nine tales of transdimensional horror that will chill you to the bone and follow you home.
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