The Gods of Moab — A Novella

By Stephen Mark Rainey

A pleasant New Year’s Eve outing becomes an experience in otherworldly horror when two close-knit couples discover a shocking secret in the darkest corners of the Appalachian mountains. At an opulent mountain inn, Warren Burr, his fiancee, Anne, and their friends, Roger and Kristin Leverman, encounter a religious zealot named John Hanger, who makes it his business to proselytize to them about his peculiar…and disturbing…faith. His efforts rebuffed, Hanger insidiously assumes control of the couples’ technological devices, leading them to stumble into unexpected, surreal landscapes…landscapes inhabited by nightmarish beings that defy explanation and rationality. To return to the world they thought they knew, Warren and his friends must not only escape the deadly entities that pursue them but somehow stop John Hanger’s nightmare-plague from spreading to the outside world.

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Gods of Moab came about from an experience essentially the same as the one that opens the story—coming home from a New Year’s Eve celebration, driving down an isolated, snow-and-ice-covered mountain road. At the time, I believed the only way the experience could have been more unnerving was if someone or something was pursuing me. Once I made it safely back to civilization, this story was already all but written.

Praise for The Gods of Moab — A Novella

“After devouring The Gods of Moab in one short sitting, this novella has not only become my favorite work by the author, it has become one of my favorite reads of the year. Rainey balances his supernatural frights with the natural, and it works beautifully. From the first page to its mind-bending final sentences, The Gods of Moab will have readers wide-eyed and enthralled.”
—TTZuma, Horror World

“Only a few modern writers understand Lovecraftian fiction. And of those few, only a couple stand out. Mark Rainey is one of those and he writes the most traditional — but no less cosmic — form of this kind of story. I’ve read very few tales like this one, and Rainey uses kinetic style to great effect! It’s a stroke of brilliant writing. Mark Rainey’s fiction is a must-have for anyone searching for a good horror story.”
—James Robert Smith, author of The Flock, The Clan, and The Living End

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