The Hecatomb — J. Edward Neill

In a drowned village, on a dark shore, in a city of white stones, an ancient evil stalks. It has no name, no face, and no desire but to see the death of everything... ...and everyone. Down through the ages it exists, sleepless and void, a relic from the world before humanity. One dead. Every night. Forever. Until nothing remains. The Hecatomb includes four short stories, including previously published horror shorts Let the Bodies, Old Man of Tessera, The Skeleton Sculptor, and The Circle Macabre. Each story is set in the same world. It's up to readers to decide the order in which they happen...