Undying Monster

The last of the Hammands face an ancient curse that has slumbered for millennia. Oliver and his sister Swanhild are the final descendants of Magnus the Warlock, whose dark pact with forces beyond human understanding has coiled through the generations like a serpent waiting to strike. When a bronze sword etched with sacred runes surfaces in the hidden chambers of their ancestral home, its hilt bearing coded secrets that may hold the key to breaking the curse, the siblings turn to occult investigator Luna Bartendale. She must unravel mysteries rooted in Norse mythology and pierce the veil between dimensions to confront the undying horror that has haunted the Hammand bloodline for thousands of years. Written in 1922 by Jessie Douglas Kerruish, one of the earliest women to write weird fiction, this novel blends gothic atmosphere with esoteric knowledge in a story that feels remarkably modern in its interrogation of inheritance, fate, and what we owe to the sins of our ancestors.