Moloch: The Real King of Horror - Couverture souple

Bayly, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1764298314 ISBN 13 : 9781764298315

Editeur : Ashlar Press, 2025

Synopsis

Moloch is a grounded, psychological horror novel that traces the collapse of an ordinary life after an encounter with an ancient Canaanite demon whose influence is anything but ceremonial. Nothing in these pages relies on belief or religious practice. The story follows the quiet ways an old myth can slip into the cracks of modern ambition, feeding on exhaustion, compromise, and the small choices a person makes when they are desperate. Our protagonist is a writer on the edge of failure. Bills stack up. Opportunities vanish. The pressure to succeed grows faster than he can keep up with. When a moment of weakness opens a door he never meant to touch, something steps through. It does not arrive in a blaze of ritual or prophecy. It settles into the everyday, shaping his thoughts, sharpening his hunger, and blurring the line between effort and obsession. What you will find inside The horror grows slowly, built from behaviour rather than spectacle. A changed tone of voice. Strange revisions. Pages he does not remember writing. A rising fame that feels unearned, as if pushed from behind by invisible hands. Those closest to him notice the shift long before he does, and their lives carry the cost of his ascent. The demon at the centre of the novel is not an agent of faith, it is a force of appetite. It rewards ambition while demanding something intimate in return. The novel weaves psychological decay, creative pressure, and domestic tension into a single tightening spiral. It explores how a person can mistake possession for productivity, and how a small compromise can turn into a life altering bargain when no one is watching. Connection to the larger Ashlar mythos Moloch stands alone as a complete story. Readers familiar with Dark Matter or 86400 will recognise the broader mythic echoes within it, although the connections remain subtle and atmospheric rather than direct. Who this book is for   This edition is for readers who favour character driven psychologica

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Bayly writes at the edge of society, where the mind begins to slip. His work does not seek calm or comfort; it is driven by a restless compulsion that circles back night after night, demanding he shape his private disquiet into stories. He admits freely that he does not tame his imagination so much as surrender to it, and in that surrender he finds the raw material of his fiction. Madness is not a theme he observes from afar but a presence that has walked beside him for years. It pushes him forward when nothing else will, and at times it threatens to undo the very words he builds his life upon. His writing grows out of this tension, each sentence a negotiation between control and collapse, each novel a gamble that the act of creation might hold him together long enough to finish. Raised in Australia, he has wandered through love and betrayal, through periods of quiet order and episodes that cracked the surface entirely. He has been broken by circumstance more than once, yet out of those fissures came characters who stumble through obsession, corruption and despair. His stories do not aim to frighten for spectacle but to confront the weight of existence, the fragility of reason, and the possibility that meaning itself may be a cruel mirage. As the founder of Ashlar Press, Bayly offers other Freemasons a place to publish their fiction with dignity, but his own work remains distinct, bearing the unmistakable signature of a man who writes not to soothe but to survive. His novels Dark Matter and Moloch are not designed as entertainment but as immersive ordeals, forcing the reader to follow him into the places he himself is uncertain of returning from. For Bayly, writing is a dangerous pact with his own mind. Every book is evidence of the struggle to remain upright while something inside threatens to pull him under. Readers enter his work knowing that the voice guiding them is itself balanced on a narrow edge, speaking not from safety but from the very brink.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashlar Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1764298314
• ISBN 13: 9781764298315
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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