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WHAT IMMORTAL HAND

Michael is called of God; just not that God.

One crime leads to another; one time to a time before. Michael Oswald pulls it all apart as though tugging a thread on an old sweater. A theft to a murder to crimes beyond imagining, Michael Oswald doesn’t understand what he’s investigating. But he’ll remember.

It began with a missing truck.

WHAT IMMORTAL HAND is an upmarket, adult occult-horror. Literary and dark, it is a road trip across American wastelands and into the depths of spiritual darkness, where the Dark Mother, Kali, has set up house in the New World, and her children, the Thuggee cult of ancient India, are alive and thriving.

Well researched and imagined, in the tradition of Dan Simmons’ Song of Kali, throbbing with symbolism and epic undertones, WHAT IMMORTAL HAND answers William Blake's famous question from The Tyger: “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” It is the Goddess Kali, consort of Shiva, Lord of Destruction. Through her worshipers, the Faithful Tigers—The Thugs of old, she culls the roads of travelers and prepares the fires of renewal.

WHAT IMMORTAL HAND
Genre: Occult Thriller/Horror
Words: 91,000
Status: Available Now

Things Bequeathed

BEATRYSEL

Unsatisfied with the ancient grimoires, the Magus made his own. Unsatisfied with the ancient demons, the Magus made Beatrysel. She was a creature of love. But there is no love without hate, no light without darkness, no loyalty without betrayal. And demons are greedy for flesh.

BEATRYSEL is a story of power and hubris, jealousy, love, and magick. Murder and sacrifice. It is a modern Faust set in the American Northwest where the cold winter rain melts the barriers between what is real and what is more real. It is a battle between power-hungry magicians, serial killers and jilted dying lovers.

BEATRYSEL might be called a supernatural occult thriller or a horror. Or a love story. It takes place in modern day Portland Oregon and follows the recovery of Julian Cormac, the magus who went too far. It’s a love story become horror as the creature created to be the personification of love itself is ripped away and pressed into service by more malignant magicks.

Thriller buffs, paranormal enthusiasts, horror readers, and fans of the occult will all find much to like in BEATRYSEL as will anyone who has ever had love go bad. BEATRYSEL is akin to some of John Saul’s supernatural thrillers in tenor and mood. Thematically, it echoes Frankenstein and Faust. The pages chill the reader while drawing them into dreamlike visions of shifting psychological realities described by modern occult philosophy. It is a thriller where a detective hunts a serial killer whose motives and means are beyond anything she can understand. It is the story of a magician who let it loose. It is a story of love in its many terrifying forms.

BEATRYSEL
Genre: Occult Thriller/Horror
Words: 107,000
Status: Available for pre-order on Amazon

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Dr. Stuart's Heart

A lifetime trying. A lifetime reaching, pressing the boundaries between the worlds. A lifetime spent longing for what was lost. Dr. Randy Stuart weathered the years and learned the ways but even his all-consuming love could not facilitate his needs until a brilliant graduate student supplied him with a vessel.

Dr. Stuart's Heart is a Beatrysel Novellete. It is a standalone story and can be accessed and enjoyed without context to the novel it's related to, but if you know Beatrysel, you'll be so much more informed.

Hopefully, after reading Dr. Stuart's Heart, new fans will be find their way into the strange and Magickal world of Beatrysel. Current lovers of the story will gain new insight into the Magus' child, her history, creation and cost.

DR. STUART'S HEART
Genre: Short Fiction: Occult Thriller/Horror
Words: 7,500
Status: Available now