The Anointed Few

By Edward Kress

Five friends take the wrong road through rural West Virginia.Then the radio dies.The cell signal disappears.And the tire blows.What begins as a stranded road trip becomes something far worse when Mara Voss and her friends discover an isolated religious community hidden deep in the Appalachian wilderness-a congregation with its own rituals, its own theology, and a history written in missing people and blood.At the center of it all is Calvary's Throat Fellowship.Its members believe something ancient lives beneath the land.They call it the Host.They insist it must be managed.Fed.Contained.But the deeper Mara digs, the clearer the truth becomes: the Fellowship may have misunderstood the thing beneath them for generations, and their attempts to control it have left bodies behind.Escaping the compound is only the beginning.Because some encounters do not end when you survive them.They change what you are able to see.And once you have been witnessed by something ancient, the relationship may last for the rest of your life.The Anointed Few is a dark supernatural horror novel of cult ritual, Appalachian isolation, ancient entities, body horror, religious obsession, and the terrifying consequences of mistaking worship for understanding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH6X2PB4
• ISBN13: 9798170738748
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"