Peter Neal’s Gods of the New Age Makes a Weapon of Kindness
In Gods of the New Age, love is the resource and the paperwork is the predator.
Peter Neal’s Gods of the New Age series is back in new editions. Second editions of Womb of Shadows, Book One, and The Frequency, Book Two, went live on 10 September 2026. Both books now share matching Kindle, paperback and hardcover releases.
Womb of Shadows follows Dr Evelyn Hart and her husband, Marcus Hart. He runs a secret weapons lab buried under Virginia. One night, he takes three drops of blood from their sleeping daughter, Nunnally. By morning, a boy stands inside the glass. The boy learns kindness from a young lab worker. The people meant to fear him start to feel safe around him instead. Leaving him gets harder than staying. Even the wish to help him can turn into part of the trap.
The Frequency picks up with the boy loose. He walks north through Virginia. He carries a small creature he will not put down. Every meal he is given, every warm room, brings him closer to hurting whoever gave it. Neal calls it a series where the dread stays quiet. The monsters, he says, are made of love. A third novel, The Firmament, has no date yet.
Both books are out now in Kindle, paperback and hardcover.
Womb of Shadows: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJBRHK89
The Frequency: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJBS8TWX
Author site: https://roguenealer.github.io/womb-of-shadows/
The programme wants everything closeness makes and none of the closeness itself. Nearly everyone who dies in these books dies of kindness, not malice. The most dangerous sentence a monster can produce is never a threat. It is a form, filled in correctly, by somebody who believed they were only doing their job.
Jim "The Don" McLeod has been reading horror for over 35 years and reviewing it for more than 16. He's the editor of Ginger Nuts of Horror, Europe's largest independent horror review and culture site, and a British Fantasy Award nominee for his work in the genre. When he's not busy inflicting his opinions on the horror community, he can be found annoying his family or getting thoroughly outwitted by his two dogs, Casper and Molly.
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