The highly anticipated follow-up to BookList's Top Ten Best Horror of 2016 selection,  The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft . The Demons of King Solomon  is the innovative sequel to JournalStone Publishing's bestselling anthology  The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft. This anthology explores the legendary demonic bestiary of King Solomon by bringing together popular authors in horror, occultism, and dark fantasy, including many NY Times bestsellers, as well as featuring original artwork by John Coulthart and descriptions of the demons by Richard Smoley. The mythology of King Solomon and his Solomonic magic played a key role in the history of magic and occultism and influenced countless haunting and fantastical tales. The traditions of goetia and grimoire owe their uniqueness to the legendary accounts of different classes, abilities, and categories of demons. Asmodeus, Belial, Abyzou, and Marchosias--these cryptic, evocative names continue to fascinate and terrify those who dare utter them. The Demons of King Solomon  collects twelve all-new demonic tales from:Asmodeus (Stephen Graham Jones)Marchosias (Michelle Belanger)Ephippas (Whitley Strieber)Ronove (Ronald Malfi)Amdusias (Philip Fracassi)Hanar (Jonathan Maberry)Ornias (Richard Chizmar)Buer (Scott Sigler)Agaras (R.S. Belcher)Abyzou (J.D. Horn)Caim (Seanan McGuire)Belial (Michael Griffin) A BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEWKing Solomon is an important and respected figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but there is also a darker mythology that surrounds his legacy, stories that have survived in print about how God let him harness the power of demons in order to build the first temple in Jerusalem. Acclaimed editor French takes the occult legend of Solomon's demons and, using the model of his best-selling collection, The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft (2015), presents a frightening and intriguing collection of horror tales by some of today's most popular and talented practitioners. Each author was given one of Solomon's demons to frame his or her own terrifying tale, but it is the additional historical commentary about each demon by the religious scholar Richard Smoley that enhances the fear and fun of this entire collection. A standout is Stephen Graham Jones' "The Floor of the Basement Is the Roof of Hell." In it, Asmodeus, the "destroyer" known for terrorizing newlyweds and opening up the gateway to a race of humans who live under the earth, is a contractor in modern America, working for a married couple who need their basement excavated. Demons have been haunting our stories since the dawn of time, and, with this collection, readers can travel back to some of our earliest accounts of the occult to be both enlightened and frightened.-- Becky Spratford for Booklist