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Heretical Talk
Paperback
Publisher Price: $22.99
Publisher: Baal House Books
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They lost their faith.
They found something else.
Across six decades, the entangled legacy of six victims will reveal the mystery of a cursed serial killer called Needless.
The killer's heretical talk leaves their minds forever scarred and seeking a path back to the light.
But when the victims go searching for God, they instead find the void and the monsters that await them in this cosmic horror novel about faith, loss, and connection.
-Chapters-
1984. A retired trucker- and his estranged teen son on a country road trip must fight for survival against an ancient species of demons living on the seemingly peaceful, isolated Umbra Island.
2004. After becoming an astronaut aboard a satellite station to feel closer to Heaven, a traumatized survivor of one of Needless' attacks bears witness to Armageddon when a nuclear holocaust sets the Earth ablaze.
1994. Another surviving victim of a Needless attack, now a quantum physicist with PTSD- discovers the mathematical equation for a dark dimension older than the universe, and opens it, unleashing chaos at his research facility.
1974. A former drug addict turned nun-in-training finds her newfound faith tested when Needless comes to her for confession and reveals dark truths of the world she thought she knew.
1964. A biker gang of outcasts called The Needless are the only ones standing in the way of a shapeshifting, human-skin-wearing demon preying on their town.
1984. A young orphaned mental patient teams up with an imprisoned Needless to stop both a demon in the asylum, and a mad doctor with ties to both the demons and Needless' past.
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