PREFACE

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SUMMARY

A Forbidden Church.

An Unholy Artifact.

The Ancient Terror That Awakens in the Dark. From the window of his Providence apartment, a young writer named Robert Blake becomes obsessively fascinated by a massive, grimly imposing neo-Gothic church that stands abandoned atop Federal Hill.

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Ignored and feared by the local superstitious immigrants, the decaying structure exerts a sinister, hypnotic pull on Blake's curious mind. Driven by an unhealthy urge for exploration, he finally breaks inside, unlocking a dusty labyrinth of blasphemous books, skeletal remains, and a strange, asymmetrical stone container holding an ancient artifact: the Shining Trazohedron. But by touching the forbidden artifact, Blake accidentally awakens a primordial, cosmic entity that has slumbered in the absolute blackness of the church's steeple since the dawn of time.

This monstrous shadow-being can only move in total darkness; the mere touch of city light burns it, keeping it trapped inside the stone walls. But as a series of violent summer storms threatens to plunge the entire city into a massive blackout, Blake realizes with mounting horror that the creature is preparing to leave its lair.