Jonathan Wood, a young man in nineteenth-century London, chances upon an arcane incantation that begins to haunt him. It begins to take over his mind, then his soul, and finally his life. Inexplicable changes are born in him and in the midst of confusion Jonathan finds himself hotly pursued by a hostile, phantasmal being. Inexorably drawn into the study of an ancient and arcane secret, Jonathan finds himself falling through the cracks of this mortal reality into a Deathless Darkness. Even as he tries to clamber back up from the billowing shadows all around him, he finds himself tempted by the possibility of an insidious ascension to an unspeakable power.
3 parts