The Adoration

By Dillon Demaine

Silence is a death sentence. The melody is a contagion. The debt must be paid in blood.

In the neon-soaked shadows of Berlin, legendary guitarist John Whitford faces his ultimate nightmare: absolute silence. Diagnosed with an aggressive autoimmune condition that is fusing his hands into useless claws, John spirals into a haze of whiskey and despair, terrified of becoming a forgotten relic. Drawn by an infrasonic Hum that vibrates in his very marrow, he stumbles into a non-Euclidean alleyway where the laws of physics dissolve. There, he meets the Maestro, an ancient entity offering a miraculous cure. Desperate to save his music, John strikes a Faustian bargain, trading his humanity for hands that will never fail.

John wakes with dexterity beyond human comprehension, but the miracle comes with a terrifying biological price. His beloved guitar, Lucinda, now pulses with a warm, living heat, and a sticky, resinous substance seeps from his pores whenever he plays. As the euphoria of performance gives way to dread, John realizes the music he plays is rewriting reality, infecting his bandmates with a manic obsession and distorting the world around them. He is no longer just a musician; he is a vessel for a cosmic horror, and the Maestro's final composition requires a sacrifice far greater than his soul before the encore ends.

Some songs are never meant to be played; they are meant to be fed.

For Fans of:
* Visceral body horror
* Cosmic dread

- From the author of Stairway to Darkness and many more -

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2JD14PK
• ISBN13: 9798274654401
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"