Tales of Darkness and Light
R. H. Whisenhunt offers graphic, atmospheric, and terrifying novels steeped in authentic supernatural horror and occult practices, beliefs, and entities. When you finish one of his books, you'll find yourself sleeping with the lights on in fear while simultaneously contemplating universal and spiritual truths. Prepare to be thrilled and profoundly moved.
The Briar Creek series
The Briar Creek series is a collection of interconnected supernatural horror novels set in a small Missouri town shaped by a century-old occult rupture.
More than one hundred years ago, a failed summoning at the Skurlock Estate tore open a boundary that was never meant to be breached. What followed was not a single haunting or contained event, but the beginning of an enduring corruption—one that embedded itself into the land, the history, and the lives of those who would unknowingly inherit its consequences.
Each novel in the series stands on its own, featuring distinct protagonists, self-contained conflicts, and unique manifestations of the supernatural. However, all are anchored within Briar Creek, where recurring locations, overlapping characters, and shared histories create subtle connections that extend beyond any single story.
What appears, at first, to be isolated incidents—violent hauntings, unexplained deaths, and encounters with unknown entities—gradually reveals a deeper pattern. The forces at work in Briar Creek are neither singular nor random. They evolve, adapt, and express themselves differently across time, suggesting an underlying structure that no single perspective can fully define.
As the series unfolds, these independent narratives form a broader, interconnected framework—one that rewards close reading and exposes a larger mythology operating beneath the surface of each book.
The Briar Creek series is designed to be accessible to new readers while offering an increasingly complex and cohesive experience for those who explore it in full.
Featured novels
House of Lies
Synopsis: A gripping tale of a family tormented by malevolent forces within their new home, uncovering a dark history of occult rituals and shattered truths. Will they escape the grasp of the house's sinister past, or become another one of its victims?
The Bornless
Synopsis: Follow a protagonist's descent into a forbidden realm after dabbling with ancient occult texts, unleashing an entity known only as "The Bornless." This novel explores the terrifying consequences of seeking power beyond human comprehension.
Chronicles of Carnage trilogy
In the quiet Midwestern town of Prairie Ridge, evil does not simply kill—it lingers, evolves, and hungers.
The nightmare begins with a series of grotesque murders attributed to a sadistic killer known only as the Beast. His crimes are beyond brutality—ritualistic, surgical, and driven by a fascination with human suffering. When Detective Ronald Galloway’s daughter becomes his final victim, the horror turns deeply personal. Though the killer dies, his evil does not. It transcends death itself, returning as something far worse—an entity capable of possession, manipulation, and unimaginable carnage.
Years later, Prairie Ridge is no longer just a crime scene—it is a spiritual battleground.
As new victims emerge, a sinister force begins to reveal itself through a corrupted church where worship masks something far darker. Congregants fall into trances, children die, and ancient entities move unseen among the living, feeding on fear, faith, and flesh. What appears to be religious revival is, in truth, a coordinated invasion—spirits seeking hosts, bodies, and dominion over the mortal world.
Those who stand against it—lawmen, survivors, and the spiritually awakened—are drawn into a war they barely understand. Possession spreads. Reality fractures. And the line between human and monster dissolves.
By the time the horror reaches its apex, the conflict is no longer confined to one town—or even one realm.
From blood-soaked streets to the depths of the astral plane, ancient beings awaken and collide: demons, ghouls, vampires, and divine forces locked in an eternal struggle. A ghoul named Malachi, once content feeding on the dead, develops a dangerous hunger for the living—awakening something disturbingly human within himself. Meanwhile, entities like Asmodious manipulate hosts and orchestrate chaos, pushing humanity toward annihilation.
As massacres spread and entire communities fall to supernatural slaughter, the final truth emerges:
This is not random violence.
This is a harvest.
Humanity stands on the brink of an “Age of Carnage,” where ancient evils seek to reclaim dominion over the world, using mankind as both vessel and sustenance. Only a handful of warriors—both mortal and immortal—stand between creation and total collapse, drawing on faith, sacrifice, and unimaginable strength to resist the rising darkness.
But in a war where evil can wear any face…
how do you fight what lives within?
Upcoming release: Egregore
After barely surviving a violent attack on her way home from work, Katlyn Brennan makes herself one promise: she will never be helpless again.
To keep it, she breaks another.
The grimoire has been locked away for years — sealed behind an oath she swore on her mother's grave. She knew the kind of power that book contained. And she knew, better than most, what happened when someone reached into the dark without understanding what lived there.
But that was before a stranger put a knife to her throat, and tried to take more than just her life. Before the world proved, in the most visceral way possible, that safety was an illusion she could no longer afford.
She performs an ancient ritual to construct an egregore; a guardian born of will and blood and desperate need, bound to a single purpose.
At first, it is everything she hoped for. A presence at the edge of her awareness, patient and watchful, filling the corners of her apartment with a weight that feels like safety. She sleeps. She breathes. She begins to believe she has finally taken back control of her own life.
Then the people around her start dying.
Detective Crystal Morrison doesn't believe in the supernatural. She believes in evidence — in timelines, forensics, and the kind of truth that holds up in a courtroom. And the evidence from three seemingly unrelated homicides, investigated across two jurisdictions, keeps pulling her toward the same impossible conclusion. At the center of every case stands a soft-spoken young woman with no criminal record, no physical connection to any of the crime scenes, and air-tight alibis.
When Katlyn's father dies unexpectedly and she returns to her hometown to bury him, Morrison follows. She tells herself she is chasing a killer. But what she finds in Briar Creek is a reality that no badge, no training, and no certainty of mind has prepared her to face.
Egregore is the third installment in the Briar Creek series by R. H. Whisenhunt. Over a century ago, a failed summoning at Skurlock Estate cracked something open in a small Missouri town. Evil took root. And spread like a cancer— threading itself through the soil, the history, and the people of Briar Creek, growing darker and more powerful with each passing generation.