num_pages: 224
description: When he disappeared the house birthed something dark to take his place.Husband. Father. Architect. Until all at once he wasn't. Diagnosed with terminal cancer Timothy Hale focuses the last of his energies on a final project something profound to be remembered for. A house beautiful enough to linger within the mind yet grotesque enough to ignite the soul. And hidden within the walls is a secret he intends to take to his grave.Left alone to make preparations for his approaching death is his wife Saundra who struggles through the realization that Tim is her last tether to sanity. For as the days watching his disease progress stretch into months her grief exhumes a paranoid madness from her college days when she suffered a mental breakdown while researching esoteric forbidden knowledge.As Tim's physical and Saundra's mental deterioration accelerate they drift further apart. Until one day It's finished he says. Let's go see it just you and me.The mansion of Tim's design is an alluring Gothic monstrosity of tapered glass and dark stone that Saundra is eager to call home. But shortly after moving in Tim disappears swallowed into the bowels of his creation. And now something is swelling in the places he once occupied: a hunger that haunts the darkness beyond locked doors a malice that can smell Saundra's fear through the layers of opulent woodwork and wrought iron.With grief blurring the line between reality and hallucination Saundra must make a choice between sanity or the lives of those she loves most.
language: English
title: Egregore: A Gothic Horror Novel
publisher: ‎ Independently published