Dorothy and her sorority sisters thought they had the perfect prank in mind: a séance to terrify their newest pledge. The plan was harmless: summon a demon, watch the poor girl panic, then laugh it off. Except this time, the ritual worked. Something monstrous answered their call, and the creature isn’t content with mere fright. It wants chaos, and it intends to bring it.

Enter the FBI’s Occult Strike Team. Lev, Frank, James, and their battle-hardened crew find themselves once again thrust into the front lines of humanity’s strangest war. Their mission: stop a Lovecraftian nightmare from enslaving or annihilating the world. For them, it’s just another day at the office, but one misstep could mean the end of everything.

The Mist from Beyond by R.K. Jack marks the second installment in the Occult Strike Team saga. The novel carries echoes of Stephen King’s Dark Tower and the mythic grotesquerie of Brian Lumley, all while carving out its own distinct territory. The blend is unmistakable: supernatural horror laced with military precision and the grit of a police procedural.

Jack thrives in this terrain. Dialogue crackles, action roars, and set pieces feel cinematic in scale. The narrative hurtles forward with energy, balancing terror with darkly comic beats that arrive when most needed. Without those flashes of humor, the story’s horrors, often described in lavishly gruesome detail, would be almost unbearable.

Make no mistake: this is grim material. The demon the Strike Team faces is nothing less than apocalyptic, and Jack ensures the stakes are clear from page one. The shifting perspectives evoke classic horror techniques, reminiscent of Dracula’s polyphonic storytelling, while the pacing accelerates toward a finale that borders on the sublime.

Graphic, relentless, and often jaw-dropping, The Mist from Beyond is not for the faint of heart. Yet for readers who crave supernatural horror with teeth, monsters that crawl straight from the abyss and heroes who meet them head-on, it delivers in spades. Intense, frightening, and unexpectedly funny, this is a book designed to thrill fans who like their horror bold and uncompromising.

Pages: 314 | ASIN : B0F89FP7FR