Alt-history cosmic horror
Dreadful Tendencies
Nikola Tesla sacrificed his humanity to defeat death, and the world will suffer for it.
Alt-history cosmic horror
Nikola Tesla sacrificed his humanity to defeat death, and the world will suffer for it.
The story
Constantinople, 1876. Nikola Tesla sacrifices his brother Dane and thousands of civilians to sway the Russo-Turkish War. Sixteen years later, he has built something impossible on a remote Vermont mountaintop to resurrect him: A monstrous tree that fuses metal and flesh. But in his desperate experiments, Nikola sends a message across the void of space, awakening a vast, cosmic entity and its ancient, earth-bound high priest. As the eastern seaboard erupts into an eldritch war zone of Lovecraftian nightmares, Tesla must battle back to a weapon hidden on Long Island, powerful enough to kill a god. Whether by fate or God's providence, a beautiful sharpshooter, a priest scarred in body and soul, and an Irish miner in a steam-powered exoskeleton are drawn into the fight. But Tesla alone faces a dreadful choice: cling to the past, or sacrifice everything to save the world he helped condemn.
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Dreadful Tendencies is adult horror set against the real brutality of 1876 and 1893. It contains graphic violence and war, period-accurate racism and slurs, the serial murder of women, body horror, ritual and sexual content, child death, and suicide.
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