THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 004Rituals & Ruin

Ten cultures, faiths and secret orders whose ceremonies go terribly right. Ritual horror for you to color: the monster here is what people do to each other.

Planned

Planned. No edition, price or release date is set.

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 004, Rituals & Ruin: a robed skeleton raises its hand before a black eclipsed sun above a candle-lit stone altar with skulls, surrounded by hooded figures and ruined pillars carved with symbols; two hands hold a golden sigil disc in the foreground. Orange title lettering.

The fourth volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES moves the horror from creatures to ceremonies: ten worlds of rites, processions and covenants, and the bodies they leave changed, with six scenes per world.

Rituals & Ruin is planned, not released. Its release details, format and price are not set yet.

The books contain gothic, creature, body and splatter horror imagery. They are not made for children.

Series
THE HORROR ARCHIVES
Volume
004
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 004, Rituals & Ruin: a robed skeleton raises its hand before a black eclipsed sun above a candle-lit stone altar with skulls, surrounded by hooded figures and ruined pillars carved with symbols; two hands hold a golden sigil disc in the foreground. Orange title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 004, Rituals & Ruin. Orange dripping headline: "The stones still remember what was summoned." Text: "Beneath the collapsed temple, the candles are burning again. Someone has returned to finish a ritual the earth tried to bury." Taglines: forgotten rites, fallen temples, awakened powers. Artwork: a ruined temple with symbol-carved pillars, a candle-covered stone altar marked with a pentagram circle, and a giant clawed shadow against a burning orange sky.
Back cover

Contents

Working contents from the story bible. Titles and order may change before release.

  1. The Ninth Bell Covenant

    Nine bell strokes, each one reshaping the faithful toward a single collective transformation

  2. The Bone Meridian

    Priests align human skeletons to the stars until the bones move on their own into a living ritual circle

  3. The Harvest of Names

    Victims' names are carved into living grain; at harvest, people and crops grow into one another

  4. The Hollow Bride Procession

    Once a century a wedding binds its guests, flesh and bone, to an empty human-shaped effigy

  5. The Lantern Tribunal

    An occult court locks prisoners' shadows in giant lanterns and leaves their bodies hollow shells

  6. The Red Eclipse Assembly

    Thousands of cultists in an eclipse amphitheatre become parts of a vast living sun disc

  7. The Communion of Ashes

    A sect eats the ashes of its ancestors, and new bone erupts from their bodies

  8. The River of Knotted Hands

    Oaths sealed by joining hands grow, over generations, into a web of fused bodies under the river

  9. The Ceremony of Empty Thrones

    Ten rival orders, ten empty thrones, and grotesque rulers growing out of their leaders

  10. The Last Witness

    A cult erases every memory of itself, and its last witnesses become one creature of eyes, mouths and hands

Editions

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