Some doors were never meant to be opened.
Dr. Marcus Stavros has spent fifteen years being called a crackpot by the archaeological community. His theories about pre-Christian sites containing ancient secrets have cost him his career, his marriage, and his reputation. But when he discovers identical architectural patterns beneath Greek Orthodox monasteries across the Mediterranean, he knows he's finally found proof that will vindicate everything.
He assembles a team of damaged experts, each bearing wounds that run deep. And those wounds make them perfect vessels for something that has waited in the dark for eons.
Beneath the monastery on Kymolos, they discover a library of forbidden knowledge and a binding ritual designed to contain Erebus, the primordial darkness that predates the Greek gods themselves. The ancient seals are failing. The fragments of a shattered god are calling to the broken places in their souls. And to save the world, they must make an impossible choice: accept the paradise that darkness offers them, or become the prison walls for an entity that hungers to unmake reality itself.
The Outward Shows the Least is a psychological horror novella that explores the terrible price of obsession, the weight of trauma, and what it means to sacrifice everything, including your humanity, for a truth no one else will ever know.
For fans of cosmic horror, Greek mythology, and stories where the monsters aren't the only thing to fear.
