After a photograph in a national spiritualist magazine reveals a long-lost Egyptian funerary lamp, Special Investigators Dana Kessler and Mark Halbrook are sent to New Orleans to recover it from renowned medium Celestine Moreau. But before they can reach her, Moreau dies while using the artifact during a séance—and, according to her final wishes, the lamp is sealed inside her tomb.
As Kessler and Halbrook seek legal authority to exhume the body, a thief breaks into the cemetery and steals the lamp before they can recover it. He vanishes in full view of police, leaving behind an impossible mystery and no clear means of pursuit. Identified as Nathaniel Porter, an international artifact trafficker wanted across multiple countries, he becomes the focus of a citywide manhunt. But Porter’s impossible escape suggests the lamp is not the only stolen artifact in play. Kessler and Halbrook must recover the lamp before he can deliver it to his client—and uncover the secret allowing him to remain beyond their grasp.
The Light of Amentet is a supernatural occult horror novel about grief, communication with the dead, artifact trafficking, and the dangers of pursuing a thief armed with an impossible advantage. It is part of the Department of Paranormal Investigation series, a collection of standalone but connected horror stories involving paranormal artifacts, entity encounters, anomalous locations, and the hidden government agency tasked with containing the threats behind them.
Occult Horror
Séances, whispers, and ancient rituals that blur the line between worlds and invite dread.
Haunted Artifacts
Dangerous objects with hidden histories that carry power and consequences.
Spirit Communications
Messages from the dead, unanswered questions, and the terrible cost of listening.
Government Secrecy
The public gets the story. The DPI gets the file.
Part of the Department of Paranormal Investigation Series Books
The Department of Paranormal Investigation Series follows the classified cases of a clandestine federal agency tasked with investigating what the public was never meant to know.
Each book opens a new file from the DPI archive. Some cases begin with evidence. Others begin with rumors, legends, or recordings that should not exist. By the time DPI arrives, the official story is already falling apart.
Each case can be read on its own, but together they reveal a larger mythology buried beneath decades of classified files, suppressed incidents, and unanswered questions. The public gets the explanation. DPI gets the truth.