About Mississippi Brimstone: A Priest’s Battle Against the Demonic by Bob Story
**Synopsis of Mississippi Brimstone: A Priest’s Battle Against The Demonic**
by Bob Story
In the humid, shadowed streets of New Orleans, where the Mississippi River carries both sin and grace toward the Gulf, Father Victor Hale has spent decades standing in rooms where the air itself turns hostile to light.
A scarred exorcist of the Catholic Church, Hale bears the physical and spiritual marks of battles most people will never believe. When sixteen-year-old Claire Laveau begins to speak in ancient tongues, bear impossible marks on her skin, and laugh with a voice that is not her own, the veil between worlds thins once more.
What starts as teenage curiosity with a Ouija board quickly becomes a full-scale war of wills: a demon that remembers every exorcism Hale has ever performed, every doubt he has buried, every name it has heard spoken in prayer. The entity does not merely possess—it mocks, it waits, it speaks the names of the lost.
With a reluctant young priest, a steadfast nun, and Claire’s terrified mother at his side, Hale enters the solemn rite—not to prove anything to the world, but to save one soul from being claimed forever.
The demon fights dirty.
It remembers.
It waits.
It whispers the failures Hale has never forgiven himself for.
Mississippi Brimstone is a slow-burn Catholic horror novel of spiritual warfare, doubt, redemption, and the terrible cost of standing between the innocent and the ancient dark. Set against the sultry, haunted backdrop of Louisiana, it follows one priest’s desperate battle to reclaim a girl from an entity that has already marked him as its next target.
Perfect for readers who love *The Exorcist*, *The Rite*, and Southern Gothic tales that linger long after the final page.
**Author’s Warning**
These pages describe real rites of exorcism and the signs of true demonic oppression. They are not fiction to be read lightly, nor instructions to be followed. If you are troubled in spirit, seek a priest. Speak in the confessional. Pray the Rosary. Keep a blessed candle burning. But do not tread these pages alone in the dark hours when the house is silent.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Victor Hale
Priest and Exorcist
New Orleans, 2025
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Author Bio:
**Bob Story** is an author of atmospheric Catholic horror and Southern Gothic supernatural fiction. Born and raised in Florida, he grew up surrounded by the humid lowlands, Spanish moss, and the ever-present sense that the veil between worlds is thinner in places where the land meets the water. Recently relocating to Tennessee, he now draws fresh inspiration from the rolling hills, shadowed hollows, and quiet crossroads of the Appalachian South—landscapes that feel equally haunted by history and grace.
His stories explore spiritual warfare, guilt, redemption, and the long cost of standing between the innocent and the infernal, often through the eyes of Father Victor Hale, a scarred exorcist whose battles are as much internal as they are demonic. His debut novel, *Mississippi Brimstone: A Priest’s Battle Against The Demonic*, introduced Hale’s world of possession, ritual, and quiet reckoning. Its sequel, *Delta Requiem: A Priest’s Reckoning*, deepens the journey into memory, self-forgiveness, and the patient nature of evil.
Bob lives in Tennessee with his family, where the rivers still run and the silence sometimes answers back.