Some debts don't end when the water goes still.

Grant Radburn swore he'd never return to the cursed island they call Purgatory. But when his old friend Devon MacArthur turns up at his door with a body that needs to disappear, Grant is pulled back into the fog-shrouded depths of Lake Superior — back to the towering mountain, the black canal, and the drowned village he prayed he'd never see again.

This time, something is different. The tolling of the bell calls up more than memories. As the dead begin to rise from the cold water, Grant must survive a single night on an island that has never once let a man leave with a clean conscience.

A Slow-Burn Atmospheric Horror Novella

Purgatory is a work of atmospheric, literary horror — the kind of slow-burn dread that settles in quietly and stays long after the last page. Readers of quiet, unsettling ghost fiction and Midwest folk horror will find a story built on guilt, inheritance, and the debts that never stay buried.

"The abyss holds them...until the bell calls."

Details

• Format: Paperback
• Genre: Atmospheric Horror / Ghost Fiction
• Author: Mike Schuhler
• Publisher: Dark Jester Publishing
• ISBN: 978-1-937272-11-1

Cover art by Francois Vaillancourt, a celebrated illustrator in the horror community.