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Holy Ghost And The Harlot's Cross
Paperback
HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Craig Ferguson
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forty-Second Street, 1977. The marquees never go dark and neither does he.
He is nineteen, a St. Jude's Academy blazer buttoned over a body that still remembers every hand that's ever been laid on it wrong. He carries his grandmother's crucifix the way other men carry a blade. He believes, with the total clarity of the truly lost, that God has given him a list.
Her name is Serafina. She works the corner under a marquee with half its bulbs burned out, and she is, to him, the last untouched thing in a city built to ruin everything it touches. Every man who has hurt her - a landlord, a cop, a priest, a man named Rico who owns the block she stands on - becomes a station on a walk he is certain is holy.
He keeps something from each of them. He tells himself it's evidence. It's closer to a relic.
HOLY GHOST AND THE HARLOT'S CROSS is a gothic-noir descent through the Deuce at its ugliest and most alive - a story about faith curdled into obsession, mercy mistaken for murder, and a boy who never once, from the first page to the last, tells you the whole truth.
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