The Slayer of Souls

Robert W. Chambers, author of the legendary The King in Yellow, returns to the uncanny with this tale of a young woman's desperate fight for her own soul. Tressa Norne has escaped the Yezidees, a shadow cult that worships in ancient and terrible ways, but she cannot escape what they planted inside her. Haunted by memories she cannot trust and visions that blur the line between prophecy and madness, she boards a steamer hoping to leave Asia behind. But Prince Sanang, the enigmatic figure who shaped her years in the cult, has not forgotten his most promising pupil. The novel follows Tressa as she navigates a world that feels both too real and too strange, battling not only the Yezidees' sinister reach but her own fractured mind. Chambers was writing pulp's finest psychological horror decades before the genre had a name, and this novel proves it: the most terrifying thing is not what hunts you, but what you might already be.