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The Mouth of Abaddon
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 26 2025
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A storm cracks open an old monastery. A word escapes. People vanish mid-sentence.
When a hillside collapses beneath a remote monastery, linguist Dr. Elijah Cross is called in to translate the marks carved into a sealed stairway. The locals whisper a single word, Abaddon, like a dare, like a joke, like a story that cannot hurt them. Then the laughing stops. Coats and boots are left behind. Voices fail. Shadows learn to listen.
With Sister Marianne Duval and the hard-edged pragmatism of Dr. Priya Anand, Elijah finds the monastery's hidden record, the Liber Silentii, a manual of containment written by monks who did not pray in the chamber below, they bound something there. The thing has a name behind the mask, and the book's first rule is not metaphor: Silence is salvation. To speak is death.
As the village repeats the word and the seal weakens, the team races through ash-choked archives, iron-stained rituals, and a hunger that wants the one thing humans give away casually: permission, spoken out loud.
Inside you will find:
- Monastic occult horror rooted in language, ritual, and restraint
- A cosmic entity that feeds on voice and naming
- A modern investigation that turns into a containment operation
- Slow dread, brutal consequences, and an ending that leaves a door ajar
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