The Geomancer II: Mortificatio

'Without warning, she just appears. Sometimes as a shadow. Sometimes like a... thing made of flesh. Staring. Waiting. My mother. Lain cold in the ground these twenty years...'

Michael Evans began a personal crusade against religion and superstition, using his radio show Finding Faith as a tool to attack and bring down his latest target - the post-modern super-guru Krishnaraj. But in doing so, Michael has fallen down a very deep rabbit hole... one leading him into the foul underbelly of organised crime, political subterfuge, and the evils of malefic occultism. And the deeper he falls, the more people around him seem to die... The Black Lodge of the Faceless are at work - a vipers' den of concealed wickedness, led by the ruthless Pater Nija. And they have been given unspeakable power over the Elements – through the bestowal of the Black Dispensation. Howling Empusae hunt in the streets. The spectral Watchers stalk the shadows. The distorted corpse Pales rise to set upon the living. The waters stir with the unholy presence of Those Whose Hair Gathers Filth. And while the people of South London see their world going to hell, Michael cowers in his cupboard, hiding from his mother... his long-dead mother...