Murky Spectrum

It was more than twenty years ago that Tom Manetti last saw Maisie Deavor. At the time he was in the grip of severe, morbid hallucinations. He had insisted that her friends in Deipan were monsters—that one of them reached a tentacle inside its abdomen, unveiled a ball of black sludge, and had thrown it at him. Maisie had him pegged as crazy and broke off contact with the smitten young man.

Aaliyah awakens to the human world with her mutilation a harsh reminder that it had all been real, and not just a terrible dream. She is quickly taken in by fellow Deipan members who promise to help her make contact with her father, even as he suffers in Hell. Aaliyah vows to have her revenge on the woman who mutilated her. Shelley Fasquelle has been invited to the next Deipan party on Owen Island by her twisted cousin, Jodie.

Shelley and Lisa begin to suspect they have stepped into something much darker and more dangerous than they had originally anticipated, after accepting Jodie’s invitation to the Deipan pow-wow. The ferry delivers them to Owen Island, where Deipan’s latest hedonistic gathering is soon to...

Ben has witnessed in person the ultimate dark secret that dwells beneath Owen Island—the source from which the fractured reality has let seep in the demonic spiritual essence that has converted and cursed the island and surrounding town of Michabo. Their enemy is massive, but Ben knows that he...