Past Darkness

Past Darkness is the story of a house called Imago and of secrets buried in the past that force their way brutally into the present. Leonard Steel is a psychiatrist who thought he had buried his Oedipus complex along with his mother when she committed suicide soon after his fifteenth birthday. The Witch finder buried his innocent victims in the foundations of Imago over three centuries ago. Imago is also the dream country house Leonard has brought his second wife and their young daughter to live in, but it is still filled with the evil of that time. Both of these horrors resurface to destroy Leonard and his family. Only one man knows the real truth of what the Steel family is facing at Imago. John Merrick is a mental patient under the care of Leonard at the Maples Mental Asylum. He has waited thirty years for the return of the evil forces to Imago. He managed to save Ellie, his daughter, back in 1969, but lost his twin sons and wife. Both men pay a high price as the body count rises at Imago; both make the wrong decision in thinking they can master the evil forces that dwell there.