The first book of the Mortal Instruments series is set where?
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 Canadian-German urban fantasy action-adventure film based on the first book of "The Mortal Instruments" series by Cassandra Clare. The story takes place in an urban and contemporary New York City. Directed by Harald Zwart, the film stars an international cast, including Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Kevin Durand, and Jared Harris. It was released in theaters on August 21, 2013, by Screen Gems in the United States and Entertainment One in the United Kingdom. "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" earned $91 million against a $60 million production budget. "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 3, 2013, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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City of Bones (Clare novel) City of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's "New York Times" bestselling series "The Mortal Instruments". The novel is set in modern day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese.
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The Faerie Wars Chronicles The Faerie Wars Chronicles is a fantasy action young adult novel series written by James Herbert Brennan. The first book in the series, "Faerie Wars" was published in the United Kingdom in February 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing. As of 2011, there are five books in the on-going series.
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The Power of Dark The Power of Dark is the first in a new series by children's author Robin Jarvis known as The Witching Legacy. The series returns to the coastal town of Whitby, the setting of Jarvis' popular supernatural children's fantasy trilogy, The Whitby Witches. The series will consist of four novels. "The Power of Dark" was first published in June 2016. The second novel, "The Devil's Paintbox", was published in March 2017. A third volume, "Time of Blood", is expected to be published later in 2017.
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The Fall (Nix novel) The Fall is the first book in Garth Nix's "The Seventh Tower" series, published in 2000 by Scholastic. It tells the story of Tal, a boy who lives in a world with eternal darkness. His home is a Castle with seven towers.
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Night Huntress Night Huntress is a series of "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy romance novels by author Jeaniene Frost. The first novel was published in 2007 by Avon and takes place in a world where supernatural creatures exist but are not known to the general public at large. The series initially focused around the character of half-vampire Catherine "Cat" Crawfield and her full-vampire lover Bones, but eventually shifted focus to other characters such as Vlad Tepesh, a character that Frost had initially not planned to include.
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A Feast for Crows A Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire" by American author George R. R. Martin. The novel was first published on October 17, 2005, in the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following on 8 November 2005.
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Sodor (fictional island) Sodor is a fictional island located in the Irish Sea, just off the English mainland near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. It is the setting for "The Railway Series" books by the Rev. W. Awdry (and his son Christopher), and also for the popular television series "Thomas & Friends".
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The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution, first published in 1905. The novel was written after Orczy's stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London and popular success earlier in 1905, after a first run in Nottingham in 1903.
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Wicked (novel series) Wicked is a series of young adult novels written by American authors Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié. The first book, "Witch" was released in 2002 through Simon Pulse.
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Shannara Shannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with "The Sword of Shannara" in 1977 and continuing through "The Sorcerer's Daughter" which was released in May 2016; there is also a prequel, "First King of Shannara". The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands, which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars. By the time of the prequel "First King of Shannara", the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science.
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Forsaken House (novel) Forsaken House is a 2004 fantasy novel by Richard Baker, set in the "Dungeons & Dragons" Forgotten Realms fictional universe. It is the first novel in the "Last Mythal" series.
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The Damnation Game (novel) The Damnation Game is a horror novel by English writer Clive Barker, published in 1985. It was written just after finishing the first trilogy of "Books of Blood", and tells a Faustian story that touches on topics such as incest, cannibalism, and self-mutilation in a frank and detailed manner. It was his first novel.
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The Dead (novel) The Dead is a novel written by Charlie Higson. The book, published by Puffin Books in the UK on 16 September 2010, is the second book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. "The Dead" takes place in London, a year before the events in the previous book ("The Enemy", released in the UK by Puffin Books on 3 September 2009), two weeks after a worldwide sickness has infected adults turning them into something akin to voracious, cannibalistic zombies.
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Gotham City Gotham City ( ), or simply Gotham, is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Batman. Gotham City was first identified as Batman's place of residence in "Batman" #4 (Dec. 1940) and has since been the setting of most stories featuring the character.
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Prisoner of Haven Prisoner of Haven is a fantasy novel set in the world of Dragonlance. It was written by Nancy Varian Berberick, published in 2004. It is volume four of the six volume book series "The Age of Mortals". It is set in the year 421 AC (After Cataclysm), also known as 38 SC (Second Cataclysm).
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Hounded (novel) Hounded is the first novel in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, The Iron Druid Chronicles. It was released on May 3, 2011. The sequel, "Hexed" was released on June 7, 2011.
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Melvyn Grant Grant was born in London, England. Always interested in illustrated arts, he attended the Brassey School of Fine Art from the age of twelve before dropping out at the age of eighteen. After studying electronics and working in a variety of short-term jobs, including as a guitarist, Grant travelled throughout Europe to improve his painting style. Upon his return to England, he worked as an illustration with various media, including animation. Soon he found a niche doing covers for books, mostly Fantasy work, but also science fiction. He also displayed versatility ranging from cute children's artwork to dark and realistic adult images. Grant has produced illustrations for many books, including the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks "FF 3: Deathtrap Dungeon, FF9: Shamutanti Hills, FF 11: Khare Cityport of Traps", and "FF13: The Seven Serpents", Terry Pratchett's "Where's My Cow?", The Demonata series by Darren Shan and The Bartimaeus Trilogy (USA) by Jonathan Stroud.
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Neverwhere Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys. Gaiman adapted the series into a novel, which was released in September 1996. The series and book were partially inspired by Gene Wolfe's novel "Free Live Free".
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Victorian Undead Victorian Undead is a series of comics about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson dealing with the supernatural. The first series "Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies" is a six-issue American comic book limited series published by Wildstorm. The series was written by Ian Edginton, with art by Davide Fabbri. The story is set in Victorian England and follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the midst of a zombie outbreak. It was followed by "Victorian Undead Special: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jekyll/Hyde" (one issue) and a second series "Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula" (five issues), which sees Holmes and Watson helping to track down the title character (Count Dracula) before he kills Queen Victoria.
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1632 series The 1632" series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire" series, is an alternate history book series and sub-series created, primarily co-written, and coordinated by Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. The series is set in 17th-century Europe, in which the small fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000 was sent to the past in central Germany in the year 1631, during the Thirty Years' War.
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Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives; her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake; and a reflection on the nature of writing.