Graven's Grotesque Trilogy

• Volume 1 ~ Resurrection

• Volume II ~ Trials & Tribulations

• Volume III ~ Medieval Armageddon

Expanded Plot Description ( Spoiler Alert ): The story is an Enochian tale based on Nephilim lore found in various sacred scripture, especially within Apocryphal works apart from accepted scriptural bodies, including ancient works like the Book of Enoch, the Book of Giants, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Moses, the Book of Adam and Eve, The Sibylline Oracles, The Wisdom of Solomon, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The narrative follows our gothic hero, Lazarus Gogu (An Elioud outcast), who, by sworn promise, has been left with the task of flying From France to Italy in order to fetch a friar and help close the second of three Gatestones opened by his Mother from the other side of the Great Seal (Hades and Tartarus), that was initially formed when the Watchers (the Grigori) were cast down before the Great Deluge.

Along his journey, he befriends a spectre named, Lord Gregory Medicci (200+ years dead) who has since been eluding angels in an attempt to locate the entrance to Hell and rescue his beloved Lady Sophia Medicci, who took her own life after falsely learning that Gregory had passed away in a violent ocean storm. Together, Lazarus and Medicci face terrible obstacles and incredible antagonists who do not wish Lazarus to succeed. They encounter the strange spiritual world of banished angels and mythical characters (familiar in both the Greek and Roman Pantehons, and who were precisely the banished Titans, Giants, and Nephilim referenced in Enochian lore.) They are Apollo and Chiron, Demeter, Cassandra, Cerberus, Oceanus and Tethys, Charybdis, Prometheus, the Giant Cyclopes, the Gorgons, the Green Giants of Anak, the Red Giants of Golgaith, the Hydra, Homonedeus and Bestimedeus, Pandora's Damons, and others. There are also the shades of the fallen angels (the Chiefs of Tens, as referenced in Enoch), alongside their selected head angel, Lucifael, who leads this attempted escape from the other side of the Great Seal, and from the depths of Hades. With the late Friar Ivan being Lazarus' paternal parent, Lucifael is Lazarus' spiritual maternal being (see: Succubus); and throughout the narrative, she poses as the primary antagonist.

As the epic saga unfolds, the characters are revealed, positions are taken, lines are drawn, and the plot evolution plunges our Elioud hero and ghostly companion into an epic battle of cosmic proportions -- between converging armies of thousands of troops from both France, Italy, and surrounding provinces. In the year of our Lord, 1352, at the physical site of the third Gatesone of the ancient Great Seal, a spiritual and physical Armageddon explodes. In the remote mountains of Italy's Umbria Province, and at the ancient and massive, walled Monastero di Cancello, Lazarus and Medicci are pinned in the midst of a rapidly-unfolding apocalypse -- the fate of the world rests squarely on the shoulders of these two persecuted outcasts. How can a mere Eljo and a wandering soul avoid a staggering convergence of armies and likewise prevent the Damons from escaping Hell? How can they survive those vast, malevolent ranks of the Fallen: the Watchers, the Grigori, the Titans and Giants, the Nephilim hordes, and the Elioud swarms? And how will Lord Medicci manage to rescue his Lady Sophia from the depths of Hell in the midst of a full blown cosmic apocalypse? They failed once -- they cannot fail again.

Grotesque: A Gothic Epic ~ Plot Overview

A Detailed Plot Description of G.E. Graven's Free Online Gothic Trilogy

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~ This Free Gothic Work Is A Digital Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809-1849 ) ~

Book of Moses 8:29 ~ "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt [ with the seed of the Grigori,
the Nephilim, the Elioud and Eljo ], for all [ grotesque and Damon ] flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth."