{"product_id":"slaughterhouse-cross-andrzu-venzos-9798244514568","title":"Slaughterhouse Cross","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a town that shouldn't exist, faith doesn't save you...it feeds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlaughterhouse Cross is a literary horror novel about belief, control, memory, and the violence we disguise as devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden somewhere between forgotten highways and broken radio signals, Slaughterhouse Cross was once a church, then a slaughterhouse, and now something far more dangerous. When Gabriel Austin Malphas arrives, he doesn't bring salvation; he brings a new language for hunger. His followers come seeking meaning, escape, or purpose. What they find is a living scripture written in blood, ritual, and recorded testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEden documents everything. Every sermon, every fracture, every transformation. Her tapes become scripture; unreliable, intimate, and terrifyingly sincere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Maxwell follows a trail of missing animals, strange symbols, and quiet atrocities into the valley, only to discover a community that doesn't just hide its sins; it sanctifies them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd somewhere else entirely, a man named Thorne waits in institutional silence, stitching meaning into madness, preparing for a convergence he insists is inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through shifting perspectives, fragmented testimonies, sermons, case notes, hallucinations, and ritualized memory, \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse Cross\u003c\/i\u003e is not a mystery to be solved; it is an infection to be witnessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about cults.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story about how meaning becomes weaponized.\u003cbr\u003eAbout how language becomes law.\u003cbr\u003eAbout how freedom becomes a mouth that must be fed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisturbing, lyrical, and unflinchingly original, Slaughterhouse Cross blends cosmic horror, psychological dread, Southern Gothic, and literary surrealism into a narrative that feels both prophetic and profane.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter the Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust don't expect to leave unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrè Venås\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798244514568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Andrè Venås","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664985919743,"sku":"9798244514568","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slaughterhouse-cross-andrzu-venzos-9798244514568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}