Out of the Night #5

When Tom learns that his fiancée Marie's father harbors a dark family secret—a twin brother, Armand, hanged for murder in Haiti—strange and brutal deaths begin to plague the Duprez estate, forcing Tom to confront the horrifying possibility that something far worse than human evil stalks the family at night. As Marie and Tom race to uncover the truth hidden in occult archives, they must race against time to stop a vengeful force that will stop at nothing to claim its twisted revenge.

When Martha's half-brother Eb refuses to give her a share of the farm's earnings and beats her into submission, she seeks out the Widow Klopp—a woman rumored to wield dark supernatural powers—to place a hex on him. The widow agrees, but warns Martha never to look into the cursed mirror she prepares; Martha places it where Eb will find it come morning, only to discover in an old witchcraft book that the hex is far deadlier than she bargained for. As curiosity and dread consume her, Martha learns the terrible price of dealing with forces beyond mortal understanding.

Gary Lawson, a supernatural writer haunted by debilitating headaches whenever he studies an ancient Egyptian tome of necromancy, discovers a mysterious personal ad from a woman claiming mastery of black magic and Egyptian secrets. When she manifests as a spirit in his home to prove her power, Gary accepts her invitation to meet at remote Schuykill Castle in the Adirondacks—but the journey there becomes a gauntlet of supernatural attacks that test whether his occult defenses can protect him and his worried wife.

When a mysterious passenger named Van Horn books passage upriver to his remote Malaysian plantation, Captain Greyson and his crew—including his daughter Ellen and first mate Steve Crane—have no idea they're sailing straight into a supernatural nightmare. As the small steamer navigates the treacherous tributary, the crew discovers Van Horn's true nature and his horrifying plans for cargo, forcing them into a desperate fight for survival against an unholy evil lurking in the jungle.