Adara Whitlock thinks she knows everything. As an academic and sceptic, she has made her fortune exposing spiritualists and mediums for the charlatans they are. However, when her twin sister commits suicide and leaves a note summoning Adara and their friends back to their childhood estate of Blackchapel, she is faced with a series of violent mysteries that she cannot explain.
Meanwhile, Flinch the headtaker wanders the dying United States. He scours the hurricane-drowned cities of the south in search of human prey. As his path leads him to a Christian zealot who is conducting human sacrifices, Flinch and Adara’s lives begin to converge in ways that have calamitous meaning for all of humankind.
Set against the backdrop of a planet Earth in its death throes, Blackchapel is a tale of religious horror and––maybe––the end of the world.