Palestine's Ghosts

Everyone in Palestine remembers the haunted house. There's just one problem: it never existed.

Texas, 1894.

Judge Z. A. McReynolds knows Anderson County better than almost anyone. So when he realizes that everyone remembers a sinister old house outside Palestine-but no deed, survey, tax record, or map shows it ever standing there-he calls on the three people most likely to take an impossible problem seriously.

Walter Gresham expects a mystery. Eleanor expects folklore.

Sekmet knows better.

Something has come loose in East Texas, twisting stories into reality and drawing Walter, Eleanor, and Sekmet into worlds that should exist only in imagination. A Gothic nightmare becomes terrifyingly real. An impossible voyage carries them through a realm of floating islands, air pirates, and ancient secrets. And beneath it all lies the same disturbing pattern: strange symbols, forgotten seals, and hints that someone has been containing the phenomenon for a very long time.

Then they finally enter the haunted house.

Inside, doors lead where no doors should. Distance and direction cease to mean anything. Something ancient stalks the darkness behind them. And one doorway opens onto a Palestine that Walter knows-but more than a century too late.

There they discover that two ordinary men may have accidentally released something that was never meant to be free.

Now Walter, Eleanor, and Sekmet must learn the rules of a place where stories become worlds, reality has more dimensions than anyone imagined, and finding the right door may be their only hope of ever getting home.

Adventure, mystery, alternate history, steampunk science, and cosmic horror collide in Palestine's Ghosts, Vol. I, the first half of Walter and Eleanor's strangest adventure yet.

The story concludes in Palestine's Ghosts, Vol. II.