Unpardonable Sin - Softcover

Potts, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692275916 ISBN 13: 9780692275917

Publisher: WordCrafts Press, 2014

Synopsis

When Summer Ends, The Dark Days Begin

Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Matthew 12:32

Jeffrey Conley sits beside Aunt Jenny at Sunday evening service, the hard wooden bench serving as security in the midst of chaos. He has come home - to a land of loss. Parents, dead. Grandparents, dead. Twin brother, dead two hours after birth. Great-aunts, great-uncles, Aunt Jenny’s husband Lawton, all dead. All decaying in their graves.

But something lives. Something dark. Something evil.

And it wants to drag Jeffrey Conley to Hell.

About this title

From the Author:

My goal in writing Unpardonable Sin was to combine the Christian mythos with the Lovecraftean mythos. Obviously something had to give--and in this case Lovecraft's world did most of the giving. In the world of this book, the Christian God is God of the universe, but there are transdimensional realms in which entities exist that in this world would be called "psychopathic." They are powerful, can change shapes, can enter people's dreams, and their real appearance is Cthulhu-like, tentacled, with parts "out of order." In the novel, one of these creatures periodically enters this world through a portal. Since this portal is in the American South, the Bible Belt, the entity learns about the local religion, a version of Fundamentalist Christianity. It then appears to a vulnerable teenager in the form of a demon and attempts to drive the teen to despair and suicide. I label this entity "The Antibeing." The hero, Jeffrey Conley, believes the antibeing to be a demon as described by Christianity. The Antibeing uses Jeffrey's fears that he has committed the unpardonable sin to drive him to despair and guide him to madness and suicide. Yet since God remains in control of the universe, Jeffrey may find he has unexpected help in his battle against the Antibeing. The Antibeing knows of God, calling Him "The Enemy," and believes that God will not interfere in the Antibeing's "game." Yet the Antibeing may discover that is not the case, and a young teen may be a more formidable opponent than he thought.

About the Author:

Michael Potts grew up near Smyrna, Tennessee and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His undergraduate degree (in Biblical languages) is from David Lipscomb University. He also holds the Master of Theology from Harding University Graduate School of Religion, the Master of Arts (in Religion) from Vanderbilt University, and the Ph.D. in philosophy from The University of Georgia.

Potts has fifteen articles in scholarly journals, nine book chapters, six encyclopedia articles, two book reviews, and he has co-edited a book, Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death, which was published in 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He also has over thirty scholarly presentations, including one presented at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at The Vatican in 2005.

He is a 2007 graduate of The Writers Loft at MTSU and a 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. His poetry has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poems & Plays, and other literary journals. His poetry chapbook, From Field to Thicket, won the 2006 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers Network. His creative nonfiction essay, Haunted, won the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, also sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network.

Pott's debut novel, End of Summer, is also available from WordCrafts Press.

Besides reading and writing, he enjoys vegetable gardening, canning, and ghost investigations (just for fun!). He and his wife, Karen, live with their three cats, Frodo, Rosie, and Pippin, in Linden, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: WordCrafts Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692275916
• ISBN 13: 9780692275917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228