num_pages: 172
description: Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two very short novels form the third part of the thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy (title from T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion," "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?") with A Case of Conscience &amp; Dr. Mirabilis. Black Easter was serialised as Faust aleph-null in If magazine.
language: English
title: Black Easter
titlecomplete: Black Easter (After Such Knowledge, #2)
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Horror, Occult
ratings_count: 769
series: After Such Knowledge, The Devil's Day
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Avon Books