d'Elah

d'Elah

A Noir Detective Horror Novel

By Eddie Bowers

1938. The rain never stops. The city is rotting. And something impossible is waking up beneath it all.

Detective Elliot Barnes has seen too much. A man stitched together by liquor, grit, and regret, he walks the thin line between justice and survival in a city choking on crime and corruption.

His partner, Caleb Thompson, is the opposite-young, sharp, still clinging to hope, still believing they can make a difference.

But when a desperate woman claims her husband vanished after painting a mural in a condemned mansion, the case spirals into something neither man could have imagined.

The mural? A haunting, shifting masterpiece-grotesque and otherworldly.

The signature scrawled at the bottom? Not a name. A warning:

"He is awake."

Soon, bodies start to appear-twisted, burned, and eerily resembling figures in the mural. As Elliot and Caleb dig deeper, they uncover whispers of a cult, ancient symbols, and a forgotten entity known only as d'Elah-a force older than time, imprisoned for centuries, now clawing its way back into reality.

As the city collapses into chaos, and betrayal strikes from within, Caleb must face the unthinkable: the only person who can help him stop the awakening is the man he's just buried.

A blend of gritty noir, cosmic horror, and emotionally charged storytelling, d'Elah is a haunting tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and the darkness that waits beyond the veil.