Nathan Pettijohn

Fief of Bedlam Nathan Pettijohn

Samael Ackerman grew up in a midsized city as member of a lower middle class family. He and his family have endured one tragedy after another. Passionate about history, political theory and religious studies, Sam always sensed there was something... wrong... with the world. While being knocked down by one horrific event after another, Sam stumbles across an old man named Vlad. Sam soon discovers Vlad holds not only the keys to the secrets of Earth's history but information about those who hold the reins of power in the halls of government and religion. Hiring Sam to be the caretaker of his extensive personal library, Vlad slowly unveils riddles that introduce a menacing character into Sam's life. Nothing is as it seems. Alien colonization. Organized crime syndicates. Covert intelligence operatives masquerading as religious harbingers. Political leaders working for unseen forces. Sam uncovers these mysteries one by one as he discovers our world is nothing but a planetary insane asylum under quarantine. No matter how many layers Sam peels back, Vlad and his comrades show him an unending string of dimensions to the horrific madness that we know as Earth. Just as Sam begins to trust that he has found the final layer, he is confronted with the biggest conspiracy of all - is the afterlife only a continuation of the mass scale dementia?