Only that which is forbidden may be permitted.
In Edwardian Paris, brilliant surgeon Arthur Burdon is engaged to beautiful Margaret Dauncey, accompanied by her loyal friend, artist Susie Boyd. They encounter enigmatic Oliver Haddo—a wealthy, obese occultist claiming alchemical mastery. Haddo, inspired by Aleister Crowley, seduces and marries Margaret, drawing her into depravity.
While
Arthur remains blind, Susie spies Haddo’s true nature: tentacled astral
projections, ritual abuse, and experiments creating daemonic homunculi fed on
virgin blood. Margaret descends into addiction and submission. Susie,
contemptuous of weakness, murders to steal Haddo’s forbidden texts, performs
blood rituals, and binds young Oswald Pendleton as lover and disciple through
explicit sex magick.
This modern
revision of this classic pot-boiler is a more hardcore, horrifying, and twisted
take on this tale.
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G.G. MacLeod is a 59-year-old Canadian male based in Calgary. The author has
always had a tendency of combining genres like horror and action along with
drama, psychological thrillers, giallo, and sometimes even comedy.
It really depends on how the author feels from moment to moment as they write because the author likes to entertain themselves first and then hope that a smattering of other people out there in the world will like it as well.
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