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On a quest to unearth the lost tomb of one of history's most enigmatic figures, renowned Egyptian scholar Emery Stander and his son, Dr. Tim Stander, unwittingly uncover a secret long thought buried for all eternity. Tainted by darkness, what emerges out of the tumultuous sands of time sprawls like a shadow until it blackens everything the two men hold dear. Draping their past, present, and future in a tempest of horror stretching across generations. In a quiet Midwestern community in the 1960s, Detective Howard Davis and his new partner are called to a grisly scene of carnage in the dead of night. Discovering a splayed and torn body of wet flesh dripping silently within the gloom of a derelict industrial park. As the two men work to unravel the mystery surrounding the brutal murder, they stumble upon a string of equally disturbing events in the recent past. Russell Stander, following cryptic symbols etched in stone by long-dead family members, discovers a hidden passage secreted away beneath his family's abandoned mansion. Descending into the labyrinth below, what he discovers binds him to the past and hurtles him into the unknown.

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"""The chilling details are both horrifying and gratifying, delivered in a way that feels entirely fresh and new to the horror genre. Gritzmacher again has seamlessly transported this reader through time and place, completely engrossed and covered in goosebumps."" Brenda-Brendasbookstack ""... Gritzmacher effortlessly weaves multiple timelines... a fantastic historical horror novel... exquisite world building and diverse characters... like reading a horror version of an Indiana Jones movie..."" Lauren-Booksnbeers13 ""The Skulldiggery series is phenomenal... overwhelmingly dark, eerie, and atmospheric... gives you goosebumps, has the hair on the back of your neck standing straight up... It's easily become one of my favorite series, and D.M. Gritzmacher has become a favorite author of mine."" River Gardner-Horror Author"

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David M. Gritzmacher spends much of his time unwinding the knots his twisted narratives bind him in. Plotting out his escape (and next dark tale), while cruising along the backroads near his home in Illinois. Married to his high school sweetheart for more than 35 years and with five grown children, he remains baffled by the state of the world around him. Retreating into his own writing where the dark things that slither, creep, haunt, and betray are not merely the folly of man...

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