Dan Lown's Books
The Emporium Of Many Things
The Purveyor slaughtered his enemies. Taught them fear. But mostly, he ripped them off.
A world-weary and grizzled outcast is haunted by the sins of his past. Disillusioned with the ways of old and isolated atop his lonely hill, the dark artefacts he once coveted now burn at his very soul. Attempting to ease his burden, he opens an emporium to repay his misdeeds and even the score.
To gain redemption, the hard-bitten Purveyor must stand by his conviction to shun the light and convince insidious creatures of the night to bargain for illicit wares instead of his life.
In a Grimdark world where every encounter may be your last, The Emporium Of Many Things caters to even the most demented of customers.
Parasite Unknown
Compassion is stalked by regret. Murdered by reality.
The world-weary and grizzled outcast knows the truth. Smells the danger. Yet the ominous arrival of mysterious travellers during daylight hours, seeking services unprovided at the emporium on the lonely hill, forces the Purveyor to make an impossible choice.
Worse, a deadly hunter cloaked in stealth and cunning has picked up a trail, closing in on the unsuspecting shopkeeper. Someone wants the Purveyor dead, but is that reason enough for him to betray his valued customers? Or will he hold the line and honour his conviction to shun the light?
Can the Purveyor survive a curse of good intentions, or will he succumb and join the horrors stalking the night?
If you find strange and exotic tales like The Witcher exhilarating, you'll be captivated by the intriguing exploits from The Emporium Of Many Things.
Demon Of Yore
Could you escape the Harvester?
Left reeling from the assassin’s encounter, the Purveyor yearns to cleanse both body and soul. With his emporium closed for the day, he summons the patron of darkness and prepares for a well-earned soak. But allies can be tenuous and their solution more perilous than the problem at hand.
The forces of darkness never tire. And this world-weary outcast’s enemies are determined to see him bathe in blood. So while the mind-numbing chains of the Harvester rattle ever closer, Bannon must defend his sanity and the only hope for his customers, the insidious creatures of the night.
Can Bannon escape a deadly hunter lurking beyond reality? Or will he be forced to bargain with his oldest nemesis of all, and unleash a destructive power upon the world so great it could never hope to be contained again?
Good luck with this one, Bannon. You’ll need it.
Heart Of Stone
Women always get what they want.
Bannon is old. Has no children of his own. Isn’t even sure demons can have children. But that doesn’t stop his wife from wanting one.
So when a young man comes begging for help on a wet and windy night, Silaea’s maternal instincts compel her husband to help him out. But the problem proves to be as dangerous as their marriage, and wreathed in a veil of forgotten majika to boot.
Can Bannon venture forth to save the boy from a terrible fate in time? Or will he be forced to flee for greener pastures to escape the wrath of his loving wife? Deep down, he already knows the answer. There is no escape.
Prophet Of Nightmares
Ba-boom. Sodden earth thumps beneath my feet. Rain slick like pooling blood in a gaping wound.
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Ba-boom. I bury my shovel into the chest of the world. Cast its flesh aside. The past beckons.
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Ba-boom. The Purveyor needs forbidden answers to defeat an ancient power. But some truths cut deeper than bone.
Deep as you bury your skeletons. They always rise to the surface.
Justice Of The Chain
Where evil roams, the Shattered Chain shall follow.
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With the help of his beautiful wife, Bannon has become a popular businessman amongst the denizens that go bump in the night. His reputation for merciless killing is fading. But such deeds cannot go unnoticed forever by the fervent zealots of the light.
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A whisper is stirring on darkling tongues, scattering every beast, ghoul and vampire to the four corners. Supreme Justicar Thaddeus Kaine is coming. And with him, the purifying might of the Shattered Chain’s Holy Inquisition.
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Bannon does not know. Time is running out. And Thaddeus Kaine takes no prisoners.
Tomb Of The Unknown King
Trapped between life and death, they wait.
Tempers are flaring at the Emporium Of Many Things, and Bannon needs a quick exit before his wife sends him packing on a one-way trip to the fires of Hell.
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But when a mysterious portal rips him from reality into a land lost in-between, suddenly that ticket to Hell doesn’t sound so bad after all.
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Can Bannon break free from a realm that should never have been, or will fate deal a hand not even the Reaper could hope to escape?
A Glimmer Of Despair
The past always catches you in the end. And Bannon’s has fangs.
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Come one, come all, for market day is upon the residents in the sleepy village of Glimmer’s Reach. A time for food stalls and merriment, feasting and fun, where the battlement’s gates are left open to visitors from far and wide. And Silaea, tired of being cooped up like a prisoner, is determined to escape the Purveyor’s emporium on the lonely hill and taste the rare delights procured from across the continent.
But an unsettling mist has befallen the valley. So thick and damp it dulls the senses, that protecting the villagers becomes an impossible task. The world-weary outcast tries to warn, but the disgruntled village guards take no heed. Then when Bannon mistakes the cloak of a traveller he met on the road, his worst fears are realized and he knows trouble has only just begun.
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Something is feasting upon the villagers. And only a tired old man can hope to save them… He really should have stayed at home.
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If you find strange and exotic tales like The Witcher exhilarating, you'll be captivated by the intriguing exploits from The Emporium Of Many Things.
Flames Of Destiny
There can be no light without darkness.
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Bannon spent a lifetime slaughtering foul beasts of every kind. Confiscated their profane materials that the world might once again see the light.
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Now he’s retired. His home littered with dark artefacts of old. And something is stirring.
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Can an old man muster the will to take up his blade one last time to save his home? Or will the fetters on his sanctum of evil be unchained, ushering a new wave of destruction upon the world?
The Death Of Thanatos
Will life be the death of him? He wishes...
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Thanatos doesn't want much. More sleep. Less dead. Snog Aphrodite.
But the needs of the dying never cease, and the mighty gods of Olympus are playing a deadly game of their own.
Can the god of peaceful death survive a brutal world of myths and men? Or will he succumb to a plot most foul, and be struck from the pages of history forever?