Stella and the Guardians of the Veil
E-book, Czech
Stella and the Guardians of the Veil
A fantastic comic book adventure from hidden Prague
Stella has just moved to Prague and she's pretty annoyed about it. School is a drag, the city is one big bore – old buildings, peeling facades and statues everywhere. But then she finds something in the attic that opens her eyes… and a gateway to another world.
Behind the ordinary facades, things are extraordinarily lively. Statues talk, gargoyles grunt with laughter and muscular atlantes complain about their sore backs. That's because Prague hides a second, secret layer – a world behind the veil, where a great war between the stone and metal statues is about to break out. And only Stella, the nerd Hynek, and the charmingly cheeky gargoyle Severka have a chance to prevent a catastrophe.
Get ready for a fantastic ride through Prague!
Kateřina Šardická
Kateřina Šardická is an author, a young adult literature editor at Host publishing house and an occasional screenwriter. She studied film theory and history at Masaryk University and her professional life revolves around books, film and television. She is the author of the award-winning young adult novels The Disappearance of Sára Lindertová (2019), a detective story with fantasy elements, and the Slavic thriller set in an abandoned village, Nights of the Demons (2020). Her screenplay The City of Metal and Stone (the first version of the screenplay for the comic book Stella and the Guardians of the Veil) won 1st prize in the Albatros Literary Competition in 2021. She has also published short stories in the collections The Most Beautiful Gift, Stories from the Dark, The Bell Rings in Five Minutes, In the Glow of the Sun and a horror short story in the anthology The Child Was Orphaned. She worked for several years as a script editor at Czech Television, mainly on documentary series, live broadcasts and children's programmes.
Dan Krátký
Dan Krátký works as the manager of Kino Svět Hodonín, a programmer for the Filmasia film festival and the chairman of the Association of Cinema Operators. Since 2020, he has been lecturing at Masaryk University on film analysis, the history of Japanese cinema and screening practices in Czech cinemas. He is a regular contributor to the media (Cinepur, Czech Radio, etc.) and is the author of King of the Monsters! Godzilla Films from 1954 to 1965. In 2022, he won the Yoli publishing house competition to publish his short story Autumn Lanterns in the collection Stories from the Dark and wrote the screenplays for the Czech Television animated series Sports Fairy Tales (2022). He made his fiction debut with the book Zombie Meat (2025).
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