Alun Rogers - Author of the Tom Sonny Series.

Former finance broker turned horror author. Trading corporate balance sheets for Vatican black ops, sociopathic ghosts, and demonic wars. Hell is real.

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@mshat18 This one stays with you. Utterly original. The absolute tragedy? There's a 130-minute rough cut, containing yet more visceral images of hell, 'lost' due to improper archiving of the film. It always felt 'short' when watching, now we know why. Travesty.

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Cosmic law and divine architecture. Honey, a divine essence. Wax forms shaped by veiled intelligences. At its core, it masqueraded as communism, but in truth it was nothing more than assimilation into the Luciferian hive mentality. The individual meant nothing to the Ordinis."

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Pope's Head Alley, located just off Lombard Steet and Cornhill, City of London. It is here where Hunter Vance, the malevolent leader of The Ordinis, conducts his 'admin'. Even the supernaturally old leader of a Luciferian order needs somewhere secret to do his paperwork.

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of bees.
The symbols reach deep into the older symbolic systems of occultism.
Bees signify hidden orders, sacred labour, the transmission of secret knowledge.
To the Ordinis they embody perfect hierarchy: obedience to a higher organising intelligence.

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@PaigeUnwritten I've always had a soft spot for this one.

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A literal biological clock ticking inside Tom's body. That detail is what separates Only the Dead Know from generic supernatural fiction and grounds it in visceral theological and moral horror.

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If you cannot ignore the stink of human exploitation, how do you react with anything but violence? Yet if you give in, that violence will kill your soul—is the absolute crucible of Only the Dead Know. Tom Sonny's right kidney was poisoned during a technomancy experiment...

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In Hebraic biblical anthropology, the kidneys (kideya) are the seat of conscience, moral discernment, and the hidden self—the place where God tests a man's true intentions. Each time Tom yields to vengeance, there is a physical price to rage.

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The back of my copy in case it helps.

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@SlasherRadio Likely the evolution in technical film stock (and digital) explains the richer, more dynamic range. For me, though, setting and atmosphere always wins. Does it get better than this:

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Not the dog. The horror film's main character. Another clue: Film opens with them both sat in the back of a sheep truck.

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This is Montgomery. AKA 'Monty'. Husky-ish. He's the inspiration for Dave and Jack, the Apennine wolfdog brothers, ever-present protectors of Plas Llwyd, Tom Sonny's ancestral home in Wrexham. Named after the MC's favourite horror film. Clue: One wears a bright red puffer coat.

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This was a fog that made the experience of sitting in a quiet pub, with warm intimacy generated by a crackling log fire, close to perfection.

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This wonderfully evocative pub features in 3 chapters in Only the Dead Know. The following is the first introduction to this quintessential English tavern, split into a few posts:
(Image courtesy of @Tripadvisor)

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This was a fog that promised unsettling glimpses of ne’er-do-wells and pickpockets, tilted top hats emerging from milky white vapour transported directly through time, pouring forth from a Victorian peasouper.