The Fearing 5: Blood & Brimstone
Welcome to The Fearing Universe!
Welcome¸ reader. What is The Fearing¸ you might ask?
The Fearing takes place in modern times¸ in a world very much like ours. With one notable exception. One of our greatest psychoanalysts and philosophers¸ Carl Gustav Jung¸ postulated that there is a vast collective unconsciousness that humanity taps into. It's the place where all of the deepest pieces of ourselves live¸ despite our cultures or religions-archetypes or universal symbols such as The Great Mother¸ the Shadow¸ the Hermit and the Tree of Life. It's also the seat of our deepest emotions-love¸ hate¸ serenity...and fear.
Imagine that within this vast collective unconscious there is a receptacle¸ a bowl that holds all of the fears that humanity has accumulated over the centuries. Every single thing a human has ever been afraid of. All collected¸ drip by drip through millennia.
Imagine that this bowl has filled¸ that it must empty so it can reset itself.
Now imagine that all fears¸ everything from the most commonly shared fears to the most deeply personal are released onto the earth¸ all at the same time.
The chaos¸ the apocalypse caused by this is The Fearing.
The Fearing was originally released serially in 2019 by Grey Matter Press¸ in four separate novellas that form an entire novel. They are:
- The Fearing Book One: Fire & Rain
- The Fearing Book Two: Water & Wind
- The Fearing Book Three: Air & Dust
- The Fearing Book Four: Earth & Ember
The Fearing: Blood & Brimstone takes place firmly in the timeline of the complete novel. It tells the story of Timothy Jacoby and Tam Washington¸ two of the novel's primary antagonists¸ who show up in Books Three and Four. It expands and deepens their stories¸ and hopefully the novel as a whole.
" The Fearing isn't only Taff's best book to date¸ it's the kind of book you put on the shelf reserved for the ones that really did something to you emotionally¸ intellectually¸ physically. A modern master at play."
-Josh Malerman¸ New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Mallorie