Three short stories inspired by Dante's Inferno, linked by a book of human skin passed down through generations. On the edge of horror, thriller and the occult.
Sins of the Flesh: When the tortured and mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is discovered, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects at the scene. Will he uncover the author's secret at the ruined chapel, and can he pay the price that it demands?
Sins of Treachery: On the death of their Grandfather, twin brothers Simon and Gestas are left a map covered in alchemical symbols that could lead them to great wealth and power. But they find more than they expected in the frozen wastes of the Arctic north ...
Sins of Violence: In a brutal post-apocalyptic world, a young girl is about to be taken to The Minotaur for a Blessing that will end her innocence. Can her sister gain access to the fortified city of Dis in time to stop the ritual and avenge her own lost youth?
Includes the Prologue of Desecration, a dark crime thriller, at the end of the book.
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I left the hysterical housekeeper downstairs with my partner and strode up the wide staircase to the first floor, my feet sinking into the plush carpet, my hand clasping the burnished bronze railing to speed my journey on. SINS OF THE FLESH
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(Independently Published, 18 January 2019, 74 pages, ebook, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I've long been fascinated by The Divine Comedy. I've listened to an audiobook of the whole thing but it's my goal to read a physical copy someday. I was looking forward to reading these stories inspired by one of the books in The Divine Comedy - Inferno. The link between the stories and Dante's work is quite vague and if you didn't know the stories were inspired by Dante you wouldn't lose out on anything. The style and structure of the stories reminded me of Clive Barker's The Books of Blood or Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. The stories are only vaguely linked so can read stand alone. The best one is the final story, Sins of Violence.
