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The Rite Of The Withering Bloom

✍️ Martin Dench
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🏛 House of the Tiger 📅 2026 🌐 English 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781917972574

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In AD 669, five people performed a ritual they believed would save their village. Before nightfall, four of them were dead. They have been dying ever since.

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Martin Dench grounds historical dread in AD 669, following a desperate village ritual that instantly left four participants dead and cursed the survivors to a lingering, unending demise. The novel builds a suffocating, atmospheric sense of isolation and inescapable doom, trading cheap shocks for a slow-burn terror rooted in guilt, consequence, and ancient contagion. It is a bleak, brooding exploration of historic folk horror that never reveals how the affliction completes its course. This measured and chilling narrative suits readers who prefer historical dread and atmospheric unease over fast-paced gore.
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Martin Dench grounds historical dread in AD 669, following a desperate village ritual that instantly left four participants dead and cursed the survivors to a lingering, unending demise. The novel builds a suffocating, atmospheric sense of isolation and inescapable doom, trading cheap shocks for a slow-burn terror rooted in guilt, consequence, and ancient contagion. It is a bleak, brooding exploration of historic folk horror that never reveals how the affliction completes its course. This measured and chilling narrative suits readers who prefer historical dread and atmospheric unease over fast-paced gore.

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