Last Days
August Derleth Award 2013.
They visit after dark and they never let go...
When indie filmmaker, Kyle Freeman, is offered a deal to make a
documentary about a notorious cult, an opportunity to avoid both
bankruptcy and obscurity is finally on the table.
Led by the infamous Sister Katherine, The Temple of the Last Days
reached its bloody endgame in the Arizona desert in 1975. Ever since,
rumour and speculation about the group’s mystical secrets and paranormal experiences have lain half-concealed behind a legacy of murder, sexual
deviancy and imprisonment.
The shoot’s locations take Kyle and his one-man crew to the cult’s
original bases in London, France and finally to the desert crime scene
where the cult self-destructed in a night of ritualistic violence. But
when Kyle interviews the remaining survivors, who haven’t broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events and unexplained phenomena plague the production. And what exactly is it they are managing to record in
any place the Temple once resided?
Troubling out-of-body experiences and nocturnal visitations, the
sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly
artefacts soon pitches Kyle into the unnerving realisation that he is
entangled in the cult’s hideous vestiges.
And whenever the old friends call, there’s no light, no warning and no mercy...
Adam Nevill
Adam L. G. Nevill has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. He has published short stories and is the author of another nine novels written under a pseudonym. He currently works as a commissioning editor for a London publisher, overseeing more than seventy books a year, including novels, fiction anthologies and memoirs.
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