Jimmy Cole imports cheap clothes and thinks he understands the cost of wanting things. In Cebu, he meets Marisol: clever, attentive, beautiful, and carrying an old story he is too charmed to hear. When he brings her to London, she slips easily into his warehouse, his flat, and his lonely life. But at night, something separates. A flying hunger moves across the rooftops, reaching through skylights and locked rooms, while a waiting body stands vulnerable in the dark. As deaths spread and love turns to fear, Jimmy learns that folklore is not superstition but warning. A tragic modern Manananggal tale about migration, desire, exploitation, and the parts of a person love refuses to see.
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A Scabrous Introduction to The Time of Pox; or, The Viscount’s Last Clean Shirt
A retro Restoration comedy in four acts, performed for the diversion of the Crown, by your most obedient and plague-avoiding bard.
THE DAMP ASCENSION
In “The Call of the Codfather,” the Children of Thalassor, a declining cult, meet covertly beneath a fish bar, struggling to invoke their drowned god, Thalassor. When reluctant scion Billy Pike returns for a funeral, he inadvertently unleashes chaos but ultimately negotiates a system for both the god and his family, transforming their absurdity into manageable governance. The story blends comedy, cosmic horror, and familial ties.
THE LEDGER OF BENEVOLENT ASCENSION
When independent accountant H. B. Carrow is hired to examine the books of a charitable occult religion, he expects hidden income, improper deductions, and perhaps a little clerical fraud. Instead, he finds a devotional pyramid scheme built on grief, debt, and human collateral. Lower-tier believers fund the comfort of trustees while being reduced, line by line, into assets, arrears, and final distributions. Told through forensic reports, interviews, and dry professional horror, The Ledger of Benevolent Ascension turns accountancy into cosmic dread, exposing a church whose worst crimes are not hidden off the books, but balanced perfectly within them all along.
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Chapter Fourteen: Closure Notice The case closed on a Friday because cases liked Fridays. That was one of Lydia Venn’s smaller professional beliefs. Bad news preferred Monday mornings because management…
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Chapter Eleven: The Route Archive The Route Archive was not a depot. That was the first useful disappointment. Mark had expected buses. Leah had expected buses. Caz had expected something…
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Chapter Eight: Public Interest Judith Vale chose the bus station. This disappointed everyone. Leah had expected a courthouse, a newspaper office, a church, perhaps some half-forgotten municipal chamber where oaths…
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Chapter Five: The Authority Above The ambulance did not go to hospital. That was the first twist, though Lydia did not learn it until later. At the time she was…
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Part 2, Depth
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In The Bloodless Audit, routine public-sector procurement becomes the doorway into a hidden national horror. Lydia Venn, a precise and stubborn council auditor, is asked to review a social-care contract whose invoices do not reconcile. At first the anomalies look familiar: opaque supplier codes, refrigerated logistics, missing schedules, over-complex framework agreements. Then the consumables begin to suggest something impossible. Blood is being purchased, routed and disguised inside adult social care.
What Lydia uncovers is not a rogue vampire ring, but a nationally tendered system: managed hunger, hidden dependents, night visits, Lower Level placements, false authorities, staff coercion and ancient obligations translated into modern governance language. When the logistics network identifies her as a threat, Lydia herself is converted into supply, kept alive and drained as evidence becomes bodily horror.
Aided by care worker Leah Marsh, chief executive Angela Rhodes, Judith Vale, Mrs Casimir, Pelham and a scattered group of witnesses, Lydia follows the audit trail beyond procurement into routes, archives, children, old houses and the machinery of public quiet. The Bloodless Audit is bureaucratic Gothic: a story of vampires, care, consent, evidence and the terrible violence hidden inside polite administrative language.