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The Doom Stone by Cornell Woolrich (introduced and signed by Jack Seabrook and by illustrator Matt Mahurin)

Hardcover – Centipede Press – Dec 2025 – 208 pages

The man known as Escargot was just a lowly private in Louis XV’s army, grudgingly serving out his tour in India. Tired of the stinging heat and the mildewed barracks, tired of the snakes and insects that swarmed over everything. A man driven to near madness by isolation, who would do anything to get back to his native France.
One day he discovers a weathered idol in a secluded temple with eyes made of two enormous diamonds. Seizing the chance to buy his way to freedom, he unwittingly sets off a wave of tragedy that reaches across time, bringing death and ruin in its wake.
The novel follows the stone’s path across history through the stories of its many owners, including: a woman fleeing the Reign of Terror, an American opportunist locked in a deadly love triangle, and a cynical secret agent plying his trade in the early 1940s.

Edition limited to 300 copies.