Newdon. Victorian London in a fun fantasy version. Jack the Ripper? A banal cannibal who prefers tender female flesh. Sherlock Holmes? An elf who invents the deductive method out of boredom... Oscar Wilde and Lewis Carroll? GREAT magicians, one of whom devoted himself to the Dark Arts, and the other to the Light Arts... But now friends and enemies are forced to unite in the face of a COMMON ENEMY. DEVILICALLY smart, DEVILICALLY dangerous... WHAT?! The Empire of the Azenates, where betrayal, cruelty, and murder have already been elevated to the rank of “high art”... They say that God was once killed here. And now there will be no one to save the Azenates from the power of the creatures of Darkness - monsters that turn people into their own kind... If the PROPHECY is not fulfilled. If the Savior does not come from the sun-scorched South - the Lion of the Desert Laisham, the great commander who will destroy the monsters - and destroy the Empire... Two novels by the famous French science fiction writer Fabrice Colin. Two facets of his amazing talent.