The Violet Carnival

Résumé du livre

Providence, Rhode Island, 1844: Professor Enoch Bowen and his son Clement return from Egypt, bearing the Starry Wisdom of Nyarlathotep;Kansas Territory, 1856: Kansas bleeds as the violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers intensifies; abolitionist John Brown recruits a small group of followers to fight the Bowenites intent on spreading the dark gospel of their new god throughout the West;Topeka, Kansas, the late 1970s: Police detectives J.B. Frazier and Dan Olszewski find a puzzling connection between a pair of suicides and wealthy local businessman Gerald Hamner;The current day: An elite US Army team probes the mystery of the Greenwell Cache: a collection of grimoires and artifacts dating to the days of Bleeding Kansas, a collection that could hold the key to understanding the past and controlling the future.Enter the world of The Violet Carnival, where the boundaries between horror, thriller, and historical fiction intersect.