Last Days

Kyle Freeman is a documentary filmmaker working guerrilla-style and short of money. When a wealthy backer, Max Solomon, offers him a commission, he takes it: a film about the Temple of the Last Days, a cult led by the paranoid Sister Katherine. Its history ended in a bloody massacre in 1975.

The job looks straightforward. Kyle is to interview the last surviving members and reconstruct how the group began and grew. He is also to cover the paranormal claims attached to the Temple, which no one has ever explained.

Kyle and his cameraman, Dan, trace the cult's path across three locations: its first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizona desert. The interviews bring more than testimony. Out-of-body experiences, visitations at night, sudden deaths and ghastly objects left in the crew's rooms follow the shoot from place to place.

This is occult horror, told in prose in the manner of a documentary, with the film crew's investigation driving the plot. The pace is relentless and the dread builds as the crew moves from site to site. What the cult awakened has noticed Kyle, and the book asks what it wants from him.