The Roseate Shroud by H_Kverse at Inkitt

Story Notes

The ROSEATE SHROUD is an original and explicit dark fantasy novel drawing from Soulsborne mythology, gothic decadence, and the horror of faith that outlives its god. It contains graphic violence, multi-phase boss encounters, and explicit sexual content.

Standing as a unique entry in a distant corner of the same universe as RESURRECTION, this story explores a darker side of the cosmos Magot has yet to tread.

It is not for the faint. It is for the ones who always sided with the monster anyway.

Summary

The world was cut open by a giant finger, and everything that grew from the wound was already infected. Algoth Morzh is a vampire hunter in the flooded city of Abbedogh — lean, deadly, androgynous, and perfectly at peace with the fact that his sanity depends on the poison of the monsters he kills. He hunts Scaled Skulls with the Blackthong Pact, a guild of killers held together by thirst, coin, and the particular camaraderie of people who have chosen the most dangerous way to stay alive. But Abbedogh is rotting from the inside. The ancient sickness called Crugnalady — part religion, part madness, part inheritance from a civilization that built an altar from screaming bodies and waited for a goddess who never came — is spreading. The sacred cities around the Altar are pulling at the world's seams. And something in the deep water is waking up. Soft as velvet. Hard as steel. And the world is about to find out which one cuts.