The Hydra Effect

Prior to his final days as the eccentic leader of the Pagan Resistance in Occupied France (as featured in Accursed), Georges Steil led a colourful life which has been explored further in several novellas and continues in The Hydra Effect.

With the guns still warm from the death throes of World War I, with the world in the grip of the Spanish Influenza pandemic, a nihilistic cult seizes an opportunity to unleash a parasitic demon upon mankind. A military hospital is at the centre of the storm which sees a battle of wits between a new nurse and an old patient for the future of the hospital, a small French town and, ultimately, the world.

This story is also included in the collection 'Cults, Curses & Cryptids'.