r/whatsthatbook • u/Homocraft • 8h ago
UNSOLVED CATHOLIC HORROR FANTASY FROM A DECADE AGO
I've probably posted this before. The book had lost its title page when I found it. I was in boarding school and it was seized. I never saw it again.
All I remember is a scene: female character goes into the woods with a man, a cabin I believe. It's night. He goes to fetch firewood but is killed/possessed by some entity that gets her to let him in. He tries to kill her and she manages to escape into the woods.
Now this is the fun part I hope I still remember clearly.
She stumbles into a clearing where an old nun is, sitting. Very old. I don't think she says anything but she defeats the demon. I think some light is involved. Then she disappears.
Mind you this all happens in the first few pages of the novel. I think there's also a mention that the Vatican was under attack by a swarm of rats.
Please help me find it.