Books by Alec Worley

The locals call it 'the Coffin Road', a lonely highway winding through the backwoods of Maine, said to be the haunt of all who have died there. Not the best place for your car to break down! ALEX is the dazed survivor of an auto-wreck, assisted by OWEN, a young African-American recovery driver with his own reasons to fear these eerie backroads. But with a storm closing in, floodwaters have blocked the road back to town, forcing Alex and Owen to take the long, treacherous route back through the Coffin Road. They are pursued by a malevolent specter with a crooked neck. Who is he? And why does he want to own Alex body and soul? What other secrets lay hidden in these woods? Alex and Owen must journey through this shadow world and unravel its many mysteries before the Coffin Road buries them forever!

The vampire demigod Balaur has been destroyed, along with his scheming sister Athena. The New Congregation has fallen, but the world has fallen with it. In striving to fill the power gap left by the vampires, other monstrous factions have fought each other to a standstill, destroying the very world they sought to conquer. The earth now lies in ruins, truly a realm of the damned!It is the early 15th century and Athena struggles to defend her ancestral home from the predations of the Ottoman Empire. When she learns that House Petrova has struck a fateful pact with the Church of Rome, the pagan vampire commits the ultimate blasphemy. Desperate to save her land and driven by demons of her own, Athena forges a living weapon with which she will rout the enemies of Transylvania. But this is a weapon that cares for nothing but blood and butchery, and Athena may realise too late that she has started a fire that may consume both herself and the world.

Presenting a critical survey of fantasy cinema, this book demonstrates that the fantasy genre amounts to more than escapism. It offers an analysis of over a century of fantasy pictures - from the seminal work of Georges Melies to Peter Jackson's recent tours of Middle Earth.