ErnestHeathcliff
In 1880s Eldra, a small band of Christian missionaries crosses the Gate believing they have been chosen to carry the Word of God into a new world.
Instead, they find sickness, starvation, poisonous food, and a wilderness utterly indifferent to human survival.
As the dead begin to outnumber the living, one missionary hears a voice in the wind.
It speaks in the language of faith.
It turns Scripture toward hunger, blood, sacrifice, and flesh.
Soon the missionaries no longer believe they are abandoning Christianity. They believe they have finally understood it.
What begins as a desperate act of survival becomes a sacrament. What begins as a whisper becomes the voice of the Father of Fathers. And as the congregation changes body, mind, and soul they become something the settlers of Eldra will learn to fear.
Told entirely through the journal of one missionary, His Flesh is a slow descent into religious horror, cannibalism, cosmic corruption, and the terrifying certainty that a person can become monstrous without ever believing they have stopped being righteous.