The Hungry Dark

Something is wrong in Germany's Black Forest.

People are disappearing from an isolated village. Violence is spreading. And the local priest has seen things he can't explain.

Knight Commander Cade Williams and Echo Team are sent to investigate.

They arrive after dark.

The streets are deserted.

The houses are silent.

Then they find the first body.

And something comes running out of the darkness.

It looks human.

It isn't.

The creature moves with impossible speed, ignores wounds that should kill it, and hides something far worse beneath its skin.

Soon Cade and his men discover the truth.

Durbandorf hasn't been abandoned.

It's been infected.

Protean demons have taken the village.

Ancient parasites capable of invading human hosts and remaking their flesh, the creatures transform their victims into grotesque weapons—each one different, each one deadly.

And there are far more of them than there are Templars.

Then the snow begins to fall.

A gathering blizzard cuts Echo Team off from the outside world. The roads disappear. Communications fail. Night closes around them.

And the creatures start hunting.

Stranded in the Black Forest, Cade and his men have until dawn to discover what controls the infected and stop it before the horror consuming Durbandorf spreads beyond the village.

But their enemy isn't entirely in this world.

To kill it, Cade may have to go somewhere his team can't follow.

The Beyond.

(Author’s Note: The Hungry Dark takes place just a few months after the events of The Heretic and before those of A Scream of Angels.)