The Cult

A far northern town—a town steeped in the sleep of gray everyday life. Its life is monotonous and gloomy: on rusting old factories, in stuffy backroom taverns of the working outskirts. Everywhere there is only an endless dampness from the sea. Everywhere the inevitability of the coming autumn…

This was the way it was a moment before Evil—faceless and nameless—invaded this half-asleep, half-living existence. Now it reigns completely in empty streets, awakens dark passions, and gives rise to fear and hatred.

What is the reason for the crushing curse? In an ancient shrine found at the edge near the seashore? In children’s games that accidentally awakened dark forces? Or perhaps it’s in the strange pair that arrived in the town shortly before everything plunged into chaos—this sturdy, completely shaven man whom once called the Inquisitor, and a young dark-eyed woman who now calls herself Karina…