The Eye Eternal

By David Price
The Eye Eternal by David Price digital book - Fable

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The Eye Eternal

(A Supernatural Noir Inspired by True Events)

Los Angeles, 1938. The city runs on light — the flicker of film reels, the flash of cameras, the restless glow of fame.
When a rising starlet leaps from the Hollywood sign, her death seems like another tragedy in a town built on ghosts.
But when a string of suicides follows, each tied to a lost experimental film known only as The Eye Eternal, LAPD turns to a defrocked priest — Father Marcus Cross — a man who once investigated the first death and failed to stop it.

As Cross and Detective Doyle follow the trail through decaying soundstages and private screening rooms, they uncover a secret society of filmmakers who believed light could remember — that film could capture not just faces, but souls.
The movie they created didn't just play to audiences; it looked back.

Now the city's mirrors flicker, reflections move out of sync, and a presence is crawling out of the silver nitrate — hungry to be seen again.

In a plain room stripped of every reflection, Cross must face what waits inside the Eye: the woman he couldn't save, the light that refuses to die, and the truth that redemption is the only thing brighter than damnation.


Tone & Style

A haunting blend of supernatural horror, noir mystery, and theological allegory — where exorcism meets cinema, and the line between faith and illusion dissolves under the glow of a dying projector.

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