The Sorcery Club

Three desperate men. One ancient book. A pact that will demand everything. Leon Hamar has nothing but the rain on his face when he stumbles into a cluttered secondhand bookstore in San Francisco, seeking shelter. What he finds instead is a volume bound in something that shouldn't be skin, filled with accounts of Atlantis and its dark arts. The book promises power to those desperate enough to seek it, and Leon knows desperation. His friends Curtis and Kelson haven't eaten in days. Together, they form the Sorcery Company, drawn by the promise of occult forces that could lift them from poverty and despair. But the book is more than legend. The rituals are real. The powers manifest. And something in the shadows has been waiting for exactly these three souls to call upon it. When they finally make contact with the Unknown, they discover too late that some bargains come due before you can even name the price. O'Donnell's 1912 novel is a creeping atmospheric horror that blends Victorian occult traditions with the brutal realities of early American poverty. It's for readers who enjoy Gothic dread and stories about what desperate people will do for power, and what might answer when they call.