The Spirit at the Temple Road

von Medardo Pena

116 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Spirit at the Temple Road begins in the village of Co Lam, where an unnatural frost and spectral mist have descended upon the streets despite the humid lowlands. When laborer Holden Mercer is struck by the terrifying Spirit Chill, young monk Venerable Minh is summoned to cleanse the village of what everyone believes is a murderous ghost.But the ritual goes horribly wrong.Minh's sacred prayer beads shatter beneath the spirit's power, and instead of discovering a demon, he encounters something far more tragic: a woman named Thanh, her soul scarred by fire, grief, and an unbearable attachment to the village. The villagers call her a parasite. The village chief, Preston Hayes-known as Chief Trinh-wants her destroyed. Yet Minh begins to realize that the spirit is not attacking without reason.When a mysterious child named Little Linh reveals that the "Crying Lady" has been waiting for something, Minh discovers a terrible secret hidden inside the chief's manor. Thanh's heart has been kept in a box, and the village's prosperity has been built upon a history of lies, sacrifice, and forgotten suffering.As the Crimson Moon approaches, Minh's understanding of his own faith begins to change. His training taught him to erase spiritual corruption, but Co Lam forces him to confront a different truth: some spirits do not need to be destroyed. They need to be heard.When the final ritual begins, Minh becomes a bridge between the living and the dead. Rather than banishing Thanh, he forces the entire village to witness the past and see the price that was paid for their survival. The villagers experience the horror of the night Thanh sacrificed herself, and Chief Trinh is finally forced to confront the woman he tried to forget.The truth transforms the ritual. The spiritual rot begins to collapse, Thanh's rage softens, and the village is released from the cycle of denial. At dawn, the Temple Road is filled with honest sunlight, while the villagers begin clearing the ruined altar-not to erase the past, but to rebuild upon the truth.Minh leaves Co Lam changed. He arrived as an Initiate determined to cleanse a haunting; he departs as an Enlightened seeker who understands that the greatest exorcism is not destruction, but the restoration of justice.The Spirit at the Temple Road is an atmospheric supernatural fantasy about ghosts, buried guilt, spiritual awakening, sacrifice, redemption, and the dangerous consequences of forcing the past into silence.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Dark Fantasy
• ISBN: 9798182763790
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: MEDARDO PENA