A Dark Pattern

A Dark Pattern is a Weird Mystery which starts with a hornet's sting and ends with demons battling over the fate of the Earth.

A Dark Pattern is set in Seattle, Washington during the late spring, early summer of 2011. The world is exactly like our own except Weird phenomena is investigated by a group called the Arkham Cabal. The Arkham Cabal operates in secret with a primary goal of protecting society from the incursions of creatures from the Cthulhuan mythos and other like groups. Secondarily they strive to keep the existence of both the Cabal and the forces it opposes a secret from the public-at-large. They maintain this secrecy through the actions of cells of agents located in major U.S. cities and the operation of clinics where they perform memory revisioning procedures to both safeguard the Cabal and to shield victims and witnesses of weird phenomena from the damaging effects of the encounters.

The protagonist is Maurice Feague a property manager for a real estate management company. He is a college graduate whose career aspirations were derailed by acute pancreatitis and never managed to get back on track. In 2008 Feague was targeted by a coven of witches operating in one of the buildings he maintained. With the help of friends he met at a local dive bar called the Ordborg he foiled the coven's scheme. During the aftermath of his encounter with the coven it was revealed that his friends from the Ordborg were agents of the Arkham Cabal. They offered Feague a position within the Cabal theorizing that something about him was attractive to Weird phenomena but he declined the invitation and opted to have his memory revised instead. Since that time the Cabal has kept on eye on Feague and his life has been normal.

Now with a simple hornet sting the Cabal's work comes undone and Feague must help foil the plans of a cult bent on world domination all the while trying to maintain his sanity and win the love of the new woman in his life. Will the truth be revealed? Will Feague come through unscathed?

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