ACOLYTES OF THE DEAD

“Loaded with Egyptian lore and sex magick, with horrific imagery and curses (and plagues) that will haunt your nightmares, W.D. Gagliani and David Benton’s Acolytes of the Dead is an erotic feast that will take you places you’ve never been, and show you things you’ve never seen. Couched in classic heart-pounding horror, this is an intelligent, erotic, and terrifying Gothic tale—its unrelenting climactic fireworks will leave you gasping!” —Tamara Thorne, author of the Old Wives’ Tales series

From the combined twisted mind of David Benton and W.D. Gagliani––authors of Splatterpunk Award nominee Killer Lake––comes this enticing new novel of magick and terror.

Sex scandal-ridden, washed-up Egyptologist James Blackstone takes a lucrative live-in job writing eccentric billionaire Alton Chambers’ autobiography and––of much more importance to his employer––translating hieroglyphs from a secret Egyptian tomb.

But Blackstone soon discovers that there is nothing normal about the Chambers family or their mysterious, phantasmagorical mansion. His very sanity will be tested by the bizarre members of the family and their sex magick practices. Will their unholy desires be their undoing… or will they be his? The strange goings-on in and under the mansion, a lust for both death and immortality, and the awakening of ancient evil, will cause Blackstone to question everything he knows, or thinks he knows.

Full of extreme hedonism, hidden agendas, and timeless manipulation… Acolytes of the Dead is a novel of intense erotic terror––a surrealistic, transgressive Egyptian gothic riff on Dracula.

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Product Details:

Authors: W.D. Gagliani and David Benton

Publication Date: September 12, 2025

Price:

Paperback: $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping, handling and sales tax. Total price: $22.95

Electronic: $5.95

Print Length: 302 pages

Publisher: JournalStone