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When Karma Forgets Your Final Breath

When Karma Forgets Your Final Breath

Faughnan, Gerard

Paperback

HorrorMystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798182773515
Publisher: Gerard Faughnan
Published: Sep 12 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At eighteen thousand feet, between the smoke of burning juniper and the howling winds of Kailash, death is not an ending. It is an examination.At the Hermitage of the Iron Threshold, mortuary monk Alexander Wright performs the ancient recitations of the Bardo Thodol. For centuries, this austere mountain sanctuary has served as a spiritual quarantine-a liminal crossing where wandering souls navigate the forty-nine days of post-mortem illusions before submitting to the great wheel of rebirth. Alexander understands the sacred laws: every physical vessel must surrender its subtle heat, every karmic debt must be exhausted, and no mortal escapes the iron decree of cause and effect.Then, an impossible body arrives in the dead of night.Discovered in the deepest subterranean crypts, the jade-skinned pilgrim sits in perpetual lotus posture, utterly defying rigor mortis and decay. Carved into its chest is a fractured Sanskrit ligature that weeps non-congealing ichor-an unnatural mark bearing the twelve-spoked seal of Patriarch Edward Stone, the monastery's revered founder who supposedly achieved Parinirvana fifty years ago.Commanded by the ailing Abbot Gabriel Ross to decipher the heretical seal in total isolation, Alexander unearths fragments of the Vimukthi-Nirvāṇa-Chela-the Akarmic Sutra, a forbidden pre-Vedic liturgy designed to sever the causal cords of dependent origination and erase karmic consequence altogether. But as Alexander investigates the crypt's frozen secrets, the fabric of the sanctuary begins to rot from within.Mortuary scales reveal that corpses are systematically losing mass, drained of their spiritual resonance before cremation. Copper conduits beneath the great prayer-wheels channel stolen life-force into the Abbot's private chambers. Outside, cosmic physics fractures: snow flurries freeze into mid-air geometric lattices, shadows fall toward the sun, and the deafening drone of Yamantaka's wrathful inquisitor echoes across the glacial passes, descending to execute cosmic sanitation upon the heretical sanctuary.Torn between the guidance of an emerald-skinned celestial apparition and the horrific truth stirring inside the founder's unyielding ribcage, Alexander must navigate an existential gauntlet where saints are iron cages, mentors are parasites, and compassion requires the ultimate sacrifice of the self.When Karma Forgets Your Final Breath is an atmospheric, relentlessly suspenseful masterpiece of metaphysical horror and esoteric mystery. Merging the philosophical depth of Tibetan Buddhist death rites with psychological dread and cosmic scale, this haunting novel will keep readers enthralled until the final, blinding dawn.

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