SCINTILLATING BLACK - Softcover

ALI, SYED FAHAD

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188897147

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Some colors were never meant to be seen. Some whispers were never meant to be heard.

When a localized seismic quake shatters a quiet home in Sunset View, Sub-Inspector Sophia Fernandes and her unit expect a routine emergency response. What they find instead defies natural law: a house torn apart as if by a demon's claw, weeping a pulsating, impossible light that burns the mind, tastes of copper and acid, and hums with a sickening, non-Euclidean rhythm.

As the anomaly’s corrupting influence spreads through the local police force, driving men to madness and physical decay, Sophia recovers a single piece of evidence from the wreckage—a waterlogged phone belonging to the home's vanished resident.

Inside lies a horrifying descent into cosmic obsession, ancient myth, and an ancient entity that does not merely destroy human lives… it unravels the very fabric of reality.

As the line between memory, sanity, and the vast, indifferent cosmos dissolves, Sophia must face a harrowing truth: the blackness isn't just coming for her city. It is already waiting inside her.

PERFECT FOR FANS OF: H.P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation), Laird Barron, and Thomas Ligotti.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798188897147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 29