A Tale of Monsters
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A Gothic Odyssey Across a Haunted America.
In 1837, Reverend Silas Cormac journeys through the South facing a creature born of science, a vampire queen in the Louisiana swamps, and a cursed boy beneath the Texas moon.
Told through letters and journals, his account becomes a haunting chronicle of a land where sin wears many faces and where one man's faith must stand against the darkness rising in the heart of America.
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