The Tyrant
by Michael Cisco

Description:
A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999, The Divinity Student.

Fifteen-year-old Ella, crippled by polio, is already taking graduate courses in biology and exhibits a special facility with ectoplasm. She is employed as an assistant by Dr. Belhoria, who has procured a unique epileptic specimen for the purposes of certian mediumistic, experimental forays into death/ In the underworld, he will become the eponymous tyrant, attack heaven and hell, fill the ranks of his army in a series of visionary campaigns, and then advance still further toward the world of the living before he is lost to view. Ella will have to force her way into the interstitial dreamed provincesof his conquests to find him again, once she realizes this is a love story.