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Notorious for their satanic lyrics, drunken excess, and rumors of blood sacrifice, the Banshees shocked the world with their only album, Beat the Manshees. Death stalked their concerts - lightning, stabbings, overdoses. The world heaved a sigh of relief when the Banshees all died in a plane crash. Or did they? Forty years later, with no fanfare, they appear in a seedy Prague nightclub.

En el coche que la lleva de urgencia al hospital, el rostro de Eligia se va desintegrando por el efecto del ácido. A su lado va Mario, su hijo y narrador de los hechos, que desde entonces la acompañará a lo largo del lento proceso de reconstrucción de ese rostro, sin el cual ninguna identidad sería posible, ni la de la madre ni la del hijo.

For centuries, the Lord-Inquisitors of the Church of the Holy Ark have hunted Mindrippers with a single-mindedness that bordered on obsession. In the age of musket and cannon, the hunt leads them to the ancient city of Dilgan where women are being butchered by an unknown killer. Here, Enk Gueye, the young scion of a noble house, wakes from a nightmare to discover he can read - and control - other people’s minds. He thinks he’s a god, but the Lord-Inquisitors have another name for what he has become: Mindripper.

Lydia doesn't understand what her recurrent nightmares, a homeless man, and her baby sister have in common until she walks into a New Orleans voodoo shop and meets Maman Margo.

What would you sacrifice to save the world? For decades, Worship Osei has hunted Mindrippers with the aid of her Lord-Inquisitors. But when her current Lord-Inquisitor is incapacitated in the ancient city of Dilgan, she is forced to seek help from a darker source, from a Sophic Nun. Will Sister Fana's holy magic be enough to destroy Enk Gueye, the most potent Mindripper in an age?

Originally published in 1911, this account perhaps more accurately belongs in our series of occult fiction, but it is one of many stories Leadbeater published as being true. This particular tale is the retelling of a story relayed to him by Helena Blavatsky, about two travelers who discover a remote, old house that is haunted by the spirit of a baron who committed suicide. Enjoy this "true story".