The Lamplighter of the Abyss
When Ethan Clair receives a mysterious photo of his long-missing father—holding the family’s ancient brass lamp, lit in the darkness of an abandoned French monastery—his life is thrown into a nightmare he thought only existed in forgotten legends.
The Clair family once belonged to a vanished profession: The Lamplighters—those who ventured into cursed ruins, forgotten catacombs, and forbidden sanctuaries to ignite sacred flames that could keep the rising darkness at bay.
But the light has fallen.
And something buried deep beneath Europe has awakened.
Joined by a brilliant but haunted symbol-expert, Alicia Mora, and a reluctant ex-military demolition specialist, Ethan must descend into a world where:
blind monks guard the dead,
ancient chains scrape under cathedral floors,
forgotten gods demand their names back,
and every flame he lights attracts the horrors he fears most.
As the darkness begins to hunt him, Ethan discovers a truth far more terrifying:
The lamp does not just protect.
It chooses who must carry it.