Edmund A. Wise Jr

The Faithful and the Damned: Demon of the Swamp Edmund A. Wise Jr

Atrakithis, an ancient evil being unwittingly released from her timeless captivity will embark on a journey to fulfill a centuries-old prophecy. The battle between good and evil is taking place in the most unsuspecting and unlikely locale: where a demon's birth threatens all living things within and surrounding the border of a swamp. Powers and forces long forgotten reemerge after centuries of dormancy. The agents of good and light call upon mere mortals, who must find within themselves the courage and determination to overcome the evil plaguing Southeastern Massachusetts. For the first time, the families of Clearmont encounter fear on its most primal level. As the environmentally protected wetlands that comprise nearly fifty percent of Clearmont's area shrivel and turns to an ashen wasteland of death, the songs of the birds and ambient sounds of the night world turns eerily silent. Until now, the gossip of affairs and small town politics filled the headlines of The Clearmont Times. In the past month, a rash of disappearances and murders has changed the center of the legendary Bridgewater Triangle: an area with a history of supernatural happenings, witchcraft, UFO sightings, and a massive creature that appears only once every quarter-century. Billy Osbon, a local police officer, trying to make sense of current events that challenge his beliefs; Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, whose ancestors first settled Clearmont, and his estranged son Philip seek legends from stories and songs of old that may hold the key to stopping the mystical and dark forces that has afflicted the Hockamock swamp; Jacob Farmouth, a mountain man avenging his father's death, along with his father's unethical business partner Dan Bores, search for the evidence to clear their names, as they are branded fugitives for the gruesome murder of William Farmouth, a successful Colorado businessman; and Ferdinand Velazquez, a boy on the run, hunted by demons and a psychopath, are the mortals who mu