Jade Scott
Dreadful Tendencies
Constantinople, 1876.
Nikola Tesla sacrifices his brother Dane and thousands of civilians to sway the Russo-Turkish War. Sixteen years later, he has built something impossible on a remote Vermont mountaintop to resurrect him:
A monstrous tree that fuses metal and flesh.
But in his desperate experiments, Nikola sends a message across the void of space, awakening a vast, cosmic entity and its ancient, earth-bound high priest.
As the eastern seaboard erupts into an eldritch war zone of Lovecraftian nightmares, Tesla must battle back to a weapon hidden on Long Island, powerful enough to kill a god.
Whether by fate or God’s providence, a beautiful sharpshooter, a priest scarred in body and soul, and an Irish miner in a steam-powered exoskeleton are drawn into the fight.
But Tesla alone faces a dreadful choice: cling to the past, or sacrifice everything to save the world he helped condemn.
Tropes & Themes
- 👪Found family
- 🧪Mad scientist
- 🕯️Redemption arc
- 🐙Creature feature
- ⚡Frankenstein’s monster
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- 🗡️Heroic sacrifice
- 💔Love redeems
- 🤝Brotherhood and sibling bonds
- ⚙️Clockwork devices
Content Warnings
- Graphic violence and gore, including on-page massacres
- Child death and harm to children
- Sexual violence: an on-page attempted assault, and rape referenced under slavery
- Racism, slavery, and period racial slurs (1876 to 1893 setting)
- Suicide, suicidal ideation, and self-harm
- Body horror, mutilation, and human experimentation
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- Death of major characters, on page
- Cosmic horror, possession, and loss of sanity
- Torture and ritual human sacrifice
- Animal cruelty, animal experimentation, and animal death
- Serial murder, including the killing of a sex worker
- Grief and the loss of an entire family
- Religious themes, including blasphemy and a crisis of faith
- Nudity and one non-explicit ritual sex scene
- Drowning, burning, and death by electrocution
- Alcohol and tobacco use, and strong profanity
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- ARC sendout15 Oct 2026
- Amazon & KU launch29 Oct 2026
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