The Color Over OCCAM

Gorman County disappeared decades ago when floodwaters rose to fill a reservoir. So why should the ghosts of drowned villages resurface only now, in a new century? And what does the reservoir have to do with the grisly deaths, disease, and disappearances stalking the benighted little town of Occam? Amateur paranormal sleuth Jeff Slater poses these innocent questions, only to encounter hostility, intimidation, and violence wherever he turns. In this saga of Lovecraftian horror, noirish detection, and festering corruption, Slater comes to understand how little he ever knew of his hometown's macabre history and its bizarre present. Meanwhile, those who do know of Occam's sinister past warn him with one voice: unearthly doom is on its way. Run or die. But Slater can't abandon his search for the truth so easily. Can he alter the fate of a town facing cosmic annihilation without destroying himself? This is the second in our Modern Mythos Series edited by S. T. Joshi and Larry Roberts. The Modern Mythos Series is dedicated to finding the best modern Lovecraftian fiction being written today by both veteran and new talented genre authors.