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Occult Fiction
Books in the occult genre are based on stories that touch on the adversaries of good, the enemies of the forces of righteousness as expressed in religious philosophy. The stories often contain, but aren’t limited to: devils, demons, demonic possession, witchcraft, sorcery, magic, necromancy, voodoo, hoodoo, and antichrist figures. The idea behind most of these stories is to show the opposite of good, to show that there is an opposing side – a darkness to counter the light.
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The policeman driving the Black Maria brought the horses to a halt near another police wagon just short of the pier. Stern and Donnelly stepped onto the street, its stone paving still wet from a recent rain. The lingering smell of ozone hung in the air. The thunder had been shattering, and Stern was glad they hadn’t had to come out in the storm. He would in theory have preferred a motorized truck, but they were notoriously delicate things, prone to breakdown. At least the models publicly availab
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He senses something wrong. He sees nothing, hears nothing, yet feels surrounded, then enveloped, by a presence of undiluted evil. He is immobilized.
Then a savage merging of oblivion and agony, as if buried alive in a living expanse of living, malignant soil invading the self, violating him, becoming him. Every fiber, every atom, strains with the effort to expel it, to escape.
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― The Spirit Phone
― The Spirit Phone
