Ascension

By T. Kulp

They told her the mountain would burn her clean.

They call Wendy Holowitz the Beast Under the Stairs. Once feared as a vicious fighter, now dying in the dark. Regret keeps her breathing. A drug called Grace keeps her hungry.

When chosen for Ascension, she climbs a path to redemption for the sins that led her to this hell.

But the ritual does not want penitents. It wants prey.

Masked pursuers move through fog and jagged stone. Something beneath her ribs is waking, hungry for her suffering. Every step up strips away another piece of the woman she was, and Wendy is starting to understand that the summit doesn't forgive addicts.

It consumes them.

But it has never tried to swallow a Beast.

A modern occult survival horror novella. Book One of FAITH & DEED, for readers of Paul Tremblay, Adam Nevill, and Catriona Ward.

Contains depictions of addiction and graphic violence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195661253X
• ISBN13: 9781956612530
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Making Adventure
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"