Böcker av DM Gritzmacher

On a quest to unearth the lost tomb of one of history's most enigmatic figures, renowned Egyptian scholar Emery Stander and his son, Dr. Tim Stander, unwittingly uncover a secret long thought buried for all eternity. Tainted by darkness, what emerges out of the tumultuous sands of time sprawls like a shadow until it blackens everything the two men hold dear. Draping their past, present, and future in a tempest of horror stretching across generations.In a quiet Midwestern community in the 1960s, Detective Howard Davis and his new partner are called to a grisly scene of carnage in the dead of night. Discovering a splayed and torn body of wet flesh dripping silently within the gloom of a derelict industrial park. As the two men work to unravel the mystery surrounding the brutal murder, they stumble upon a string of equally disturbing events in the recent past.Russell Stander, following cryptic symbols etched in stone by long-dead family members, discovers a hidden passage secreted away beneath his family's abandoned mansion. Descending into the labyrinth below, what he discovers binds him to the past and hurtles him into the unknown.

With the pinprick of summer fresh on his skin, a young boy stumbles upon a horrifying secret long buried in the forgotten past of a small midwestern community. Sharing the disturbing discovery with his best friends, the boys set out on the adventure of their young lives, hoping to unravel a mystery over 100 years in the making. One that left a scarred graveyard full of discarded bodies in its wake, and a deep divide between those avoiding history and those unwilling to see it repeated. Without the comfort of an adult they can trust, their terrifying encounter haunts them the rest of their lives. Each blind to the murky darkness it left festering deep inside them. Haunted by a series of recent and barely believable events, Russell Stander returns to the long-abandoned home of a deceased relative he'd last visited as a child. Hoping to discover a connection between what he'd witnessed there in the past, and freshly unveiled revelations. Enlisting the help of his best friend, retired detective Tom Secrist, Stander painstakingly peels back the layers of time. Searching for any connections, and the abandoned friendships he'd long left behind. Four boys, coming-of-age in the 1980s, bound by loyalty and their thirst for adventure. Each tarred with a lingering stain that changed the course of their tattered lives forever.

Hoping to escape the horrors of World War II, Jeanne Butte and her family take refuge in an ancient Roman quarry on the outskirts of their French village. But the little girl soon finds the quarry, like her family, holds deep, dark secrets. When Jeanne finally emerges from the underground shelter, the four-year-old is found alone among a cluster of Roman ruins just outside her village. With no memory of her time lost below or what became of her parents, the orphaned girl is shipped overseas to live with her aunt. Growing up near Chicago, Jeanne tries to fit in and pursues the classic American dream. Nearly forty years later, Jeanne finds herself struggling in life. Newly divorced and with a child of her own, lost details from her past begin emerging. Jeanne impulsively returns to the French village of her birth, hoping to find some sense of closure. When she is shown her own tombstone, Jeanne becomes determined to reenter the ancient Roman quarry. When she descends into the chasm for a second time, Jeanne finds something had been expecting her all along. Though entirely fiction, this disturbing tale pulls from historical fact, ancient pagan beliefs, and French legends. The story weaves timelines together from 1944, 1979, and present day as Jeanne struggles with an ageless horror you can't simply run away from. Has Jeanne ever not been, or escaped, the quarry?

The discovery of skeletal remains opens old wounds in a quiet Midwestern community decades after multiple young women had vanished without a trace from the area. Aging irreverent metalhead Russell Stander returns to the wooded site of his big sister's crude interment filled with foreboding and hoping for closure. Soon after, all near the grim visage known locally as Skull Rock, more badly decomposed human remains are soon discovered. Stander enlists the help of recently retired detective Tom Secrist to help him unravel the age-old allure of Skull Rock, and the disturbing intent behind the contemporary psychopaths seeding its mountainside with corpses. But each spiraling step plunges both men deeper into an ancient horror centuries in the making.Gunnar, a Norseman settler, comes face to face with the evil that slaughtered his family. To save his clan, Gunnar undertakes a harrowing odyssey across the untamed wilderness of North America. Desperate to stay one step ahead of the malevolent force that stalks him. Two men, born a thousand years apart, their destinies bound together by a timeless evil. Can either man unravel the mystery of the monstrous thing lurking unseen before it consumes them and everyone they love...?