Where Hungry Ghosts Bury Their Shadows

von Parker

172 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Some debts cannot be buried beneath the ice. Some ghosts hunger for the soul itself.Perched upon a sheer, three-thousand-foot chasm in the freezing Himalayas stands Drip-pa Gompa-an ancient cloister wrapped in monastic silence. Forensic pathologist Dr. Caleb Donovan arrives under contract to perform a clinical evaluation on the monastery's sacred relic: the Incorruptible Master. Caleb lives by the cold truths of pathology, tissue decay, and surgical precision. But deep inside the sub-zero vaults, science collides with the inexplicable: the mummified patriarch is wired with pressurized coolant shunts and fitted with an unvarnished titanium microchip embedded beneath desiccated muscle.Before Caleb can decipher the impossible relic, a catastrophic winter avalanche obliterates the mountain pass, severing Drip-pa Gompa from the secular world. The isolation is swift, absolute, and deadly. Within hours, the killings begin. A wealthy patron is found in the east corridor with molten bronze poured down her throat, her mouth forced open in liturgical mockery of the Preta-the insatiable hungry ghosts of Buddhist scripture. Then another victim is discovered flash-frozen inside the generator hold, staged to embody the tortures of the Naraka hellscapes.Trapped in an escalating abattoir, Caleb conducts an emergency incision into the sacred mummy, only for his rational world to implode. The relic carries the exact transverse clavicle fracture and dental crowns of Colin-his identical twin brother, whom Caleb believed burned to death in their childhood dormitory fifteen years ago. Worse, mysterious hours vanish from Caleb's clock. He awakens with chemical residue in his lungs, bruised knuckles, and his own mortuary scalpel gripped in blood-stained hands, matching the surgical angles of the slaughter.As the temple braziers burn with mind-altering aconite and the blind abbot speaks of settling karmic debts, the boundary between investigator and butcher disintegrates. Caleb must confront a terrifying truth: Drip-pa Gompa is not merely a sanctuary under siege, but a spiritual furnace designed to overload moral causality. With the physical walls of the monastery beginning to liquefy into crushed steel and emergency sirens, Caleb faces the intermediate abyss of the Bardo-where unburied guilt demands total dissolution.Masterfully blending clinical forensic dread with esoteric Buddhist liturgy, Where Hungry Ghosts Bury Their Shadows is a haunting psychological thriller about identity, repressed trauma, and the harrowing architecture of damnation. Perfect for readers of atmospheric locked-room mysteries and mind-bending metaphysical horror, this relentless novel invites you into the frozen dark-where the only escape from the cycle of suffering is to surrender the self entirely.

• Themen: Belletristik Thriller / Spannung Psychothriller
• ISBN: 9798182769556
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: DAWNA PARKER