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NETHER REGIONS is a necromantic thriller coming soon as a 4-issue miniseries from Ape Entertainment with other things brewing just out of sight.

Kicking off with a sneak peek in July just in time for San Diego Comic Con, NETHER REGIONS offers loads entertainmentwise: Action for people who love spectacle. Suspense for the tension junkies. Humor for people who prefer jokes of the graveyard variety. And ample romantic shenanigans for people who prefer their hearts hot and beating.

NETHER REGIONS is a story for the people who love Watergate-era espionage dramas and the stylish supernatural flicks of the 1970s: savvy, sexy, suspenseful, and sophisticated. Think of it as an Hitchcockian euro-thriller which replaces silencers with sorcery... sort of a Thomas Crown Affair with undead sex magickians.

Also, for any hardcore Hermetic types who might give a Trismegistos, the magick in NETHER REGIONS isn't generic ooga-booga-BS cribbed from Wikipedia. The dæmonology and metaphysics are rock solid... We're not saying that reading it will summon something, but not reading it might.

Esoterrorism

Structurally, NETHER REGIONS is an occult reinvention of the traditional spy caper focusing on top secret documents, a heroine in peril, and pursuit by shadowy operatives. NETHER REGIONS steps beyond Cold War clichés by replacing the looming threat of atomic physics gone wrong with metaphysics made flesh. For a quick overview of the history of esoteric espionage take a look at this short piece on Esoterrorism.

Paranormal Romance / Urban FAnTASy

Genre fiction can rock but it shouldn't be generic. NETHER REGIONS occupies a proud place in the long tradition of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and occult adventure, but goes beyond buff bloodsuckers and werepigs and cuddly wiccans... We've put up a little overview here with some thoughts about the ways NETHER REGIONS embraces and reinvents the tradition.

If you can't get enough Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Charlaine Harris, or Laurell Hamilton, but you're wanting something a little more cosmopolitan... you're in the right place.
If you dig Mike Carey, Jim Butcher, Rob Thurman, or Marc del Franco and other occult noirs, and you're not afraid of a woman holding the reins... we're totally up your alley.

If you loved the humor of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and the sexiness of True Blood only you like your romance a little swoonier... we walk that line.

If you love the Whedonverse of Buffy and Angel, but you've been itching to get out of Southern California to tour the Old World, we're headed your way.

If you miss the literate, fetishy suspense of Hammer Horror and other classic European cinema gothics, lost books, doomed souls, and seductive peril... we have something to show you.

If you got passionately attached to Twilight and Wicked, but craving some grown-up emotions, we're ready for you.

If you want your romance supernatural, your horror sophisticated, your laughs a little twisted, your espionage outside the box, your darkness a little lighter, join us for a saunter in the shadows...

the NETHER REGIONS are waiting for you.