Loathsome Grace Live
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Loathsome Grace Live 〰️
Zachary O’Shea is a horror author and tabletop RPG designer.
Psychopomps, Book 2 of the Crimson Threads series is out now!
Zachary O’Shea lives sometimes in the Land of Neon Sunrises and other times in the Great White North
There’s something about the stark differences between the American Southwest and Northern Ontario that he can’t resist. Spoiler; it’s his wife. He has spent his life telling stories from absurd coloring book creations as a child, to a lifelong passion for game-mastering role-playing games, and occasionally dipping a toe into horror fiction.
When he’s not writing, which is honestly rare, Zachary is spending time with his family, running a role-playing game session, or blowing off some steam in an MMO. Though, he’s usually writing something in stolen moments even in between all of this.
Loathsome Grace
France, 1670s.
War grinds on at the edges of Europe. Versailles glitters and decays in equal measure. God is invoked daily, and listened to less and less.
Rémy Fétique is a dragoon of the King’s armies: trained to ride, to kill, and to obey.
When his entire troupe accepts an uncanny assignment far from the front, Rémy discovers fate has a cruel plan laid out for him. Drawn into the shadow work of the Crown, Rémy becomes a hunter of the unclean. He faces threats too heretical, too intimate, and too inconvenient for courts and clergy alike. Alchemical abominations fester in noble estates. Fertility cults bloom in forgotten villages. Saints’ bones whisper from hidden reliquaries. Across France, horrors crawl that remember Rome, Gaul, and older civilizations still. At the heart of it all stands a woman: a beautiful widow with a knowing smile, golden eyes, and a gravity Rémy cannot escape.
Join the hunt against sinister sects, corrupted clergy, and abominations that twist earthy forms into madness incarnate. But beware! Each victory demands a price. Each miracle leaves a stain.
Bone Orchard
Illusion. Intuition. Mystery. Once a dreamer, now a soiled dove, she wonders if her life ended long before today.
To Whistler, Nevada, Luna Walsh is nothing more than a weary madam with a hidden smile. She tells herself the same most nights. But when a string of gruesome tragedies tears open the town’s polite veneer, Luna finds herself pulled into a mystery steeped in blood and secrets best left buried.
Dr. Wallace Creed, a Civil War veteran, has made peace with grief by tending to saints and sinners alike. Drawn into Luna’s desperate search for truth, he becomes her ally in uncovering what festers beneath Whistler’s soil. Together they unearth horrors neither expected… and a fragile, dangerous spark Luna fears is mere wishful thinking.
Love may offer Luna a way forward or bind her to the graves of the Bone Orchard.
What has been woven cannot be undone.
Book 3 in the Crimson Threads series.
The tapestry of fate is a frayed and fragile thing...
Grease Paint
Beginnings. Recklessness. Spontaneity. Without purpose, she drifts through life like an autumn leaf on the wind.
Harper Parson stumbles through her 20-somethings, distracted by one unfinished dream after another. To avoid her foolish nature catching up with her for a few days longer, Harper embarks on an ill-fated backpacking trip with her brother and childhood friends into the Thornwoods.
Dark folklore drips from the forest's barbed boughs. While the bloody tales give Harper second thoughts, a chance to make a play on her crush, Conrad, just can't be passed up.
All too soon, the Thornwoods' sinister nature proves true. A killer stalks the foggy woods.
His face is smeared white. His attire better suits a carnival. His axe is sharp and eager. Yet. not all is what it seems under the misty canopy.
Harper will need all her passion and wits to see herself and her friends through this trial alive.
What is woven cannot be undone.
Horror Prose & Poetry
Poetry
Crimson Threads Series
Anthology Contributions
Ream
TTRPGs
