World of Shadows

The reference page. Series chronology from year minus thirty-one through Akron. Faction tree showing the Vatican, the Council, and the Ninth Circle. Character relationship chart. Open threads.

The Everett Exorcism is free through July 5 — the book that started World of Shadows.

The Everett Exorcism — book one of my World of Shadows religious-horror series — is free on Kindle July 1 to 5, 2026. Grab the full novel.

An author-voice commentary on what World of Shadows is actually about. Institutions, not demons. Niccolo as the autobiographical character who isn't me. Why Bishop Glasser is the villain I respect most.

A non-canon deleted scene from The Vatican Children, dramatizing the night Bishop Glasser stopped being a parish priest and started becoming the trilogy's villain. Cut for narrative gravity. Preserved for paid readers.

A deep file on Arthur Vangeest: the manor that broke him, the vow that holds him together, the daughter who pulls him forward, and the version of him you will meet in books still to come.

A guided tour behind the curtain of the World of Shadows trilogy. The Vatican, the Council of Chaldea, the Ninth Circle, and the centuries-old program at the heart of every conflict in the books.

A World of Shadows short story. Four years before the basement at Saint Joseph's, Father Niccolo Paladina stood in a shanty in Tondo with the wrong rite in his hands. He has never written the case file. He writes it now.

When faith becomes corrupted and holy institutions harbor demons, only those willing to confront evil in the shadows can save the light. A 3-book horror series by Lincoln Cole.