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Be Not Afraid II — Hear Me: A Spiritual Thriller About Listening, Faith, and the Battle Within
The darkness never truly left. It only learned to whisper.
Years after the events of Be Not Afraid, a young doctor begins to question the nature of evil when her patients describe things medicine cannot explain. At the same time, a priest trained in exorcism is called to investigate strange deaths spreading through a small Polish town.
As their paths cross, the boundaries between science and faith, reason and fear, begin to collapse. Each of them must decide what to believe — and whom to trust — when the voice that calls for help may not be human.
Be Not Afraid Hear Me is a chilling spiritual thriller about silence, redemption, and the cost of hearing what others refuse to believe.
Years after the events of Be Not Afraid, a young doctor begins to question the nature of evil when her patients describe things medicine cannot explain. At the same time, a priest trained in exorcism is called to investigate strange deaths spreading through a small Polish town.
As their paths cross, the boundaries between science and faith, reason and fear, begin to collapse. Each of them must decide what to believe — and whom to trust — when the voice that calls for help may not be human.
Be Not Afraid Hear Me is a chilling spiritual thriller about silence, redemption, and the cost of hearing what others refuse to believe.
360 pages, Hardcover
Published October 15, 2025
About the author
Vasyl Kazmirchuk
6 books26 followersVasyl Kazmirchuk writes thrillers that don’t feel like fiction.
His stories explore faith, artificial intelligence, freedom, and the fragile line between control and chaos.
He writes about the questions people avoid — and the systems we trust too easily.
These are not just thrillers.
They are warnings.
If even one reader closes a book and sees the world differently, the story has done its job.
His stories explore faith, artificial intelligence, freedom, and the fragile line between control and chaos.
He writes about the questions people avoid — and the systems we trust too easily.
These are not just thrillers.
They are warnings.
If even one reader closes a book and sees the world differently, the story has done its job.
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March 21, 2026
As the author, I’m proud of this book and of what it became through the writing process.
This second part moves further into silence, fear, and the uneasy space between faith and what cannot easily be explained.
It was not an easy book to write — but it was an important one.
This second part moves further into silence, fear, and the uneasy space between faith and what cannot easily be explained.
It was not an easy book to write — but it was an important one.
November 15, 2025
Another great read! This is a stunning story with an enlightening lesson. Sometimes evil creeps into our thoughts making us self doubt. Victory is in overcoming.
November 18, 2025
Another thoughtful, frightening, entertaining work.
In certain psychiatric wards in Poland, a doctor may be called on to diagnose a neurological problem or a psychological one. The more difficult cases are spiritual, and here a priest is required, although the roles of doctor and priest overlap on the psychological level. This is not to trivialize the role of either. The Latin formulae are translated: the pharmacological formulae, whose Latin constructions echo the liturgical, are not. Ironically, we are more inclined to take those on faith.
The book has a fascinating take on the value of faith amongst those who have experienced spiritual evil, and who, in the conventional sense, need no faith because they know. A taster (but not the whole story) is “… knowledge without faith curdles into control, and faith without knowledge into gullibility. We want neither.”
Equally interesting is the book's examination of those elite horrors who don't rely on The Devil's "prettiest trick". The weapon of spiritual disease is complacency: that there will be a tomorrow and that we can put off doing the right thing until then.
This is probably the most astonishing and thought-provoking novel on spiritual evil I've ever read. C.S. Lewis achieved a similar level of exposition, but his arguments and outlook are outdated (how many of the villains in say, That Hideous Strength are clearly mentally ill?). Thoroughly recommended for a disturbing but rewarding read.
In certain psychiatric wards in Poland, a doctor may be called on to diagnose a neurological problem or a psychological one. The more difficult cases are spiritual, and here a priest is required, although the roles of doctor and priest overlap on the psychological level. This is not to trivialize the role of either. The Latin formulae are translated: the pharmacological formulae, whose Latin constructions echo the liturgical, are not. Ironically, we are more inclined to take those on faith.
The book has a fascinating take on the value of faith amongst those who have experienced spiritual evil, and who, in the conventional sense, need no faith because they know. A taster (but not the whole story) is “… knowledge without faith curdles into control, and faith without knowledge into gullibility. We want neither.”
Equally interesting is the book's examination of those elite horrors who don't rely on The Devil's "prettiest trick". The weapon of spiritual disease is complacency: that there will be a tomorrow and that we can put off doing the right thing until then.
This is probably the most astonishing and thought-provoking novel on spiritual evil I've ever read. C.S. Lewis achieved a similar level of exposition, but his arguments and outlook are outdated (how many of the villains in say, That Hideous Strength are clearly mentally ill?). Thoroughly recommended for a disturbing but rewarding read.
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