The Caldera's Vice Prologue - Varden Frias - Wattpad

Story cover for The Caldera's Vice Prologue by Varden_Frias

The Caldera's Vice Prologue

Reads 222
Votes 15
Parts 2
Time 13m

Reads 222
Votes 15
Parts 2
Time 13m

"We don't hand out vices. We hand out an escape from pain."
-Silas MaCallister, drug kingpin 

In Hellhole, the sordid city situated into the volcanic basin of the Moloch Caldera, drug bootlegging reigns supreme. A red demon, Asher Glassberg, witnesses the murder of his parents in a gruesome in-home shooting, He finds himself caught up in Hellhole's seedy drug underbelly seeking retribution for his parent's murder. More drug related murders soon follow in Hellhole and black demon Milton Romero, a freshly hired drug mule, stumbles across a deadly strain. The witty Tengu detective, Renshu Karasu, looks into the murders with his keen eye for detail and hunger for solving puzzles. Will this new drug strain bring Hellhole to its knees? Find out in this gritty art deco Prohibition era noir of the demonic kind.

The full novel available now on Amazon!All Rights Reserved

Table of contents

2 parts

Sign up to add The Caldera's Vice Prologue to your library and receive updates

or

#13paranormalmystery

Content Guidelines

You may also like

TIME TESTAMENT by night-writer2073

William Testament is a mild mannered insurance man until his life becomes a series of unfortunate events, beginning with a horrific car accident. A visit to a meditation retreat changes his whole mindset and a mysterious and beautiful nightclub owner who moonlights as a sorceress seems to understand his mind better than he does. The city they live in is a dynamic place in the near future, but built up from the past, layers of millenia holding up its foundations, and dark energies working deep beneath its basements. The histories lurking there aren't the ones we read about in history books and some of them are infected with the future. The underworld is full of high-tech gangsters, artificial super-intelligences, and witchcraft wielding criminals spreading rumors and illusions. Rumors of a time-machine underground where the past and future collide. William is determined to bring order to this dark chaos growing beneath the city. With the help of Samantha, a young citizen journalist, and a mysterious spiritual teacher somehow linked with his own personal past, he hopes to try and control whatever this unseen thing is before it is too late.

Resurrection by RobLockett

In the beginning there was Adam.... A world-weary global backpacker working as a bartender in Southern England; his life starts to take a series of downward turns and his thoughts start to become dark, very dark. Supernatural forces are circling Adam and he makes a deal that will see him play host to one of the most demonic antagonists to grace the pages of History. His world is quickly overtaken as he bears witness to a series of encounters that will set off a chain of terrifying events in both the UK and the USA. Adam quickly learns the terrifying ease in which humanity can ultimately be corrupted. A new leader rises in a religious cult/ militia that have waged war against a foreign enemy. Is this the same man? Sarah is an undercover operative tasked with infiltrating this infamous cult. What will she uncover and will she be too late to stop the nefarious plans of this cult leader? *Book of the month - Literary Titan **3rd place Winner Ace Awards - Paranormal genre

Fallen 🪽 by QuinceArchFortes

After being put in 'time-out,' an angel finds herself thrown into a demon's purgatory. Trapped with each other, whose influence will prove strongest? ******************************************************************** Ash is an angel out of grace. Atticus is a demon with something to prove. After events go wrong in the mortal plane, both are due punishment. What they don't expect is to serve that sentence together. Armed with otherworldly powers, they battle for control in a stagnant prison built just for them. Bonds twist and grow, like a thorny vine, as black and white fade to gray in this paranormal romance full of mystery and legend. FEATURED ON: @Paranormal ~ What in the Wattpad? @Romance ~ Slow Burn // Para-Romantasy @WattpadAfterDark ~ Dark Romance @Ambassadors ~ Para-Romantasy AWARDS: 🥇1st Place ~ Morsus Mortis 2024 {Dark Romance} 🥈2nd Place (Tied) ~ EC Fiction Awards 2024 {Romance} 🥉3rd Place ~ Romance Reads 2024 {AfterDark} Longlist ~ NanoWatt2024 {Paranormal} Wordcount 50k ⚠️ Content warning: depictions of graphic violence and sexual content. 🎵 Recommended playlist 🎶 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Mxy7QZYoJpB5MHAU4GRAk?si=31afeafde6b44258 Cover art background sourced from free-use photographs by @kkalerry via unsplash.com AI assistance was not used in any way, shape, or form to create the story or cover.

Within The Gloom by MythosandSuch

Possessing a mysterious power and body far stronger than ordinary, David is thrust into a world of the strange and unimaginable. Into a world of the supernatural. A world of secrets, of killers, monsters, demons and gods. ****** David Parker, a seventeen-year-old boy, has been hardened by life. Emancipated, living alone and struggling, David just manages to skate by in life. Plagued by a depressing and tragic past, he only wishes to live a sedentary life in a haze of marijuana smoke. One night, in his hometown of Old Pine, a killer strikes, changing everything. Gifted with a mysterious abnormally strong body, David tries to intervene setting him on a collision course with great evil. This story is about David and others like him. Those who are tied to the supernatural and the unknown. And the evil they encounter. With time, revelations, experience, growth and adventure, David and the others learn they must combat many great evils with newfound abilities. Can David and the others be able to stop the unstoppable? Avoid the unavoidable? Will they find hope in the darkness or only despair? Who knows, but if they do, it will take everything they have to stand against "The Will of Evil." ****** A Novel that is still being written and is currently ongoing. Future and past uploads and chapters are still subject to change and to be edited. Feedback and criticism are welcome and encouraged. Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy. This book deals in intense situations and subject matter. Reader discretion is advised.

Gateway to Pandemonium [Open Novella Contest III] || Completed by violetsintherain

By performing the ritual of this legend you will open the Gateway to Pandemonium and if you're lucky, you will come face to face with The Devil himself and ask him for anything you want. But everything has its price and The Devil twists everything to be in his favour. Ellis Parker is desperate and only sees one option: see if the legend is real and find The Devil in Pandemonium. She will do anything to get what she needs. And so she does and sets out into the underworld. But what are the consequences of the deals she will be making? And what is the reason for the Devil visiting her five years later? - TRIGGER WARNING- Some mildly strong language will be used from time to time, plus the subject of suicide will be shortly meantioned. Nothing will be discussed in detail, but if you do have trouble with these things I would ask you to be cautious when reading. It is all VERY lightly discussed, but I did want to give people a warning just in case. ©All Rights Reserved Prompts #49 and #42 ---- Highest rankings so far: #41 in Hades #3 in Spinechilling

What We Have Lost by ChrisPenaArrieta

In a world where true terror lurks in plain sight, three intertwined fates collide in a frantic hunt for a demon that preys upon innocent girls. 🔪 A man trapped inside his niece's body, forced to protect her from sinister forces closing in. 🔮 A witch gifted with the power to find the lost, facing an evil far darker than she ever imagined. 🚨 A police force hunting a serial killer, only to discover that their worst nightmare is not of this world. When nightmares bleed into reality, how far would you go to reclaim what you love? Dare to cross the line.

Mason - Archaic #4 (Sample of Published Book) by ReganUre

There is a darkness that lurks inside of me. The evil that runs through my veins is a constant reminder of the ruthless killer I once was. But somehow I've been changed. I'm not that person anymore. Unlike before, I can feel remorse for my actions even though guilt doesn't erase the past that still haunts me. I've been given a chance to lead a normal life. A chance to be a son, a brother and maybe more. My name is Mason. My future is undecided. I don't know if it will last. All I know for certain is that none of it will even matter if I can't escape my past. * Please note this is only a five chapter sample of the published story.

Bodyswitch by DavidCallinan

If you think your body belongs to you - think again! Jack Madigan has the perfect life. He runs a mission in the Bronx helping New York's poor and homeless, the lost souls of the city. His wife Kerry works on a campaigning newspaper. They are not rich but they are fulfilled. And they are about to have their first child. Sadistic sociopath Ernie Mason is released from prison, the poor black kid from the Bronx who has been brutalised by a lifetime of abuse, drugs and crime until he becomes a killer; a walking time-bomb. He gets drunk, steals a car and goes joyriding in central Manhattan. Jack says goodbye to Kerry after a routine medical examination and she crosses the busy street. Ernie Mason hits Kerry full on, killing her instantly and killing himself.The bottom falls out of Jack Madigan's life. But then he is made an offer no other human being has ever received. The chance to say a final goodbye to Kerry on 'the other side'. But there is a price to pay. He must allow a recently departed soul to occupy his body while he is in spiritual limbo to be given one last chance of redemption. That's when the cosmic switch clicks and a dark soul enters Jack Madigan's body. Guess who?

Chaotic Together by ssynn_xo

*MATURE CONTENT* A Little Insight: As I walked to my wardrobe, he stood up and began taking slow, sinister steps towards me with his claws extracted. I looked at him and took steps back until I hit the wall, damn it. 'Is everything okay?' I asked. He tilted his head and stayed silent until he reached me then slammed his hands on both sides of the wall, parallel to my head - trapping me. 'What the hell, Seth? You're scaring me,' I get annoyed. He growled, 'Mallory,' I looked into his eyes, 'You've been a very naughty girl.' * A troubled human. A troublesome demon. Both Chaotic Together. What happened when a human and a demon collide? He was sent to earth to protect her, but can he before it's too late? Mallory has had a horrible life. An abusive father, absence of a mother, a failing career. She only had a demon who protected her from the world. He entered her life with chaos and suspicious intentions. But by the end, things change, but for the better or worse? Mallory went through a rollercoaster figuring out Seth's intention and proving his existence, did he really exist or was he a figment of her imagination? At the same time, she constantly fought her inner demons. She did things she shouldn't, she destroyed things she shouldn't, trust me it's a crazy ride. Join her journey to see if she survived... This book contains SMUT, supernatural reference, gory/grisly descriptions. Please read at your OWN RISK.

You may also like

Slide 1 of 9

TIME TESTAMENT cover

Resurrection cover

Within The Gloom cover

Gateway to Pandemonium [Open Novella Contest III] || Completed cover

What We Have Lost cover

Mason - Archaic #4 (Sample of Published Book) cover

Bodyswitch cover

Chaotic Together cover

TIME TESTAMENT

William Testament is a mild mannered insurance man until his life becomes a series of unfortunate events, beginning with a horrific car accident. A visit to a meditation retreat changes his whole mindset and a mysterious and beautiful nightclub owner who moonlights as a sorceress seems to understand his mind better than he does. The city they live in is a dynamic place in the near future, but built up from the past, layers of millenia holding up its foundations, and dark energies working deep beneath its basements. The histories lurking there aren't the ones we read about in history books and some of them are infected with the future. The underworld is full of high-tech gangsters, artificial super-intelligences, and witchcraft wielding criminals spreading rumors and illusions. Rumors of a time-machine underground where the past and future collide. William is determined to bring order to this dark chaos growing beneath the city. With the help of Samantha, a young citizen journalist, and a mysterious spiritual teacher somehow linked with his own personal past, he hopes to try and control whatever this unseen thing is before it is too late.