Armed with Madness
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Completed, First published Mar 02, 2026

A creeping dread clings to the crumbling Cornish coast, mirroring the unraveling of Alistair Finch. Returned from the Great War haunted not by shellshock, but by a chilling conviction – a certainty that he is tasked with *preventing* a resurrection. Not of a man, but of an ancient, pagan power stirring within the land itself. The manor, Porthmeor, is less a house than a wound in the landscape, breathing with the same damp rot as Alistair’s fractured mind. His wife, the brittle Evelyn, exists as a phantom limb of his sanity, her devotion laced with a desperate, suffocating piety. As Alistair’s ‘duty’ compels him towards acts of escalating violence – fueled by visions and whispers carried on the relentless wind – the boundary between his obsession and the encroaching darkness blurs. The scent of brine and decay permeates every stone, every shadowed corner, a suffocating perfume promising not salvation, but a descent into a madness older than the stones themselves. Each tremor in the earth, each raven’s cry, feels like a summoning, drawing Alistair closer to the precipice where his sanity will shatter, and the ancient power will rise again, clad in the ruins of a broken man. It is a slow, suffocating unraveling, steeped in the brine of obsession and the salt of a decaying world.
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