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In the Shadow of Monstrous Things
Hardcover
Series: Old World Saga, Book 1
FantasyMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781923875012
Publisher: Joel Preston
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This hardcover edition of In the Shadow of Monstrous Things also includes the novella Fear the Full Moon.
A late night out in Corfu should have been nothing more than a forgettable stop on an otherwise perfect sailing trip. Instead, a stranger's cryptic warning proves true, and Josh survives an attack that should have killed him outright. He carries the wound home to Cairns without a scratch to show for it. He should have known better than to think he'd gotten away clean.
When the next full moon rises, Josh discovers exactly what he brought back with him. He's not sick. He's not losing his mind. He's turning into something that shouldn't exist. Something with claws, and hunger, and no memory of what it does in the dark.
He's not the only one who's noticed.
A secretive government taskforce is already closing in, more interested in what Josh is becoming than who he still is underneath it. His girlfriend Danni refuses to run, even as keeping his secret starts costing her everything she has. And somewhere in the shadows, an older, hungrier predator with a very old grudge hasn't finished with him yet.
Josh has one moon cycle to master the monster inside him before it costs him everyone he loves, or before the people hunting him get there first.
In the Shadow of Monstrous Things kicks off an action-packed urban fantasy saga where ancient gods still walk unseen among us, government conspiracies run deeper than anyone suspects, and the line between man and monster is thinner than Josh ever wanted to find out.
Then continue the story right away with Fear the Full Moon, included in this edition!
Bitten and cursed the same night his best friend's world fell apart, Jesse Billiau flees Cairns before he even understands what he's carrying inside him. Taken into captivity, he's dragged into a hidden compound deep in the Vietnamese jungle, chained and beaten by men who see him as nothing more than a slave. When the full moon rises and the wolf takes over, Jesse wakes among the dead with no memory of what he's done and no one left to hide the truth from.
Alone in the wilderness that follows and hunted, Jesse is found by an unsettling and unlikely guide, a god who calls himself Baron Samedi. Through tiger attacks, cult fires, and the slow unraveling of everything he thought he knew about himself, Jesse is forced to answer one question again and again: who does he choose to be, when the only witness to his choices is the darkness inside him?
Fear the Full Moon is a story about survival at its rawest, the weight of guilt that follows violence, and the stubborn, quiet decision to remain a good man even when the world has given every reason to stop trying. Fans of visceral horror with real emotional stakes will find themselves gripped from the first page to the last.
About the Old World Saga
The divine awakens, and so do the things that wait beyond the stars.
When an Australian traveller named Joshua Dare survives a chance encounter with creatures from myth on the island of Corfu, he inherits a curse born of Zeus and sets in motion a chain of events that will pull gods, angels, monsters and mortals into the greatest conflict the world has never known existed.
The Old World Saga fuses mythology, cosmic horror and action across a cast of unforgettable characters, building towards an epic reckoning between the old powers of the world and the things that predate them. The series is available now.
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