Holiest

Book I of The Divine Tragedy

HOLIEST is an independently published Biblical & Gothic horror novel
and is a 2025 Indie Ink Awards Finalist for Prettiest Book Interior

Available on:

[seraphina’s webstore]
[Amazon] [itch.io] [patreon]

Deep in the heart of Hell, the Fallen Host is living with as much peace as their Father allows them to have, until one day when a treacherous cherub is cast down into their realm like the star Wormwood from Revelation. Yet all of the other portents from Revelation seem to be missing, with the exception of a mysterious manuscript that begins haunting the Devil's dreams and eventually his waking world as well.

Set in a universe that combines Dante's Hell with Milton's angels, HOLIEST follows the mistakes and delusions of Hell's prince as he falls into psychosis, believing that the Day of Wrath is upon him. The novel also features over forty artworks by the author.

Originally shared online in 2019 as a web series instead of a book, this heavily revised and expanded first edition of HOLIEST has new illustrations and multiple appendices.

preview of illustrations:

[VIEW THE MAPs OF HELL & pandemonium HERE]

content NOTES

Below is the full list of content notes & trigger warnings:

MENTAL ILLNESS (depression, psychosis, extreme paranoia, hallucinations, self-harm, suicidal ideation & attempted suicide. Also includes fear of stigma regarding mental health and minor discrimination towards the main character for his mental health)

MINOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE (some characters engage in guilt tripping, manipulation, and psychological abuse towards the main character or other characters)

BODY HORROR (physical torture, self-harm, terrifying & mutilated angelic and human bodies, mutilated corpses, graphic descriptions of the torments of Hell, graphic depictions of violence including amputation, self-immolation, and loss of eyes, graphic and disturbing alterations to religious imagery)

DEATH (demon & beast death, discussion of dying, Infernal funerary customs & interment, suicidal ideation & attempted suicide)

PHYSICAL ASSAULT (resulting in multiple injuries) (NO sexual abuse or sexual assault)

BODILY HARM (concussion, broken bones, loss of eyes, punctured lungs, fall from heights, self-immolation, self-injury and dissection, lacerations, stitches, etc)

HERETICAL AND BLASPHEMOUS IDEOLOGIES (discussion of theodicy and the view of God as not being omnibenevolent, characters have doubts towards God and their faith, main character despises Jesus—does not reflect the view of the author)

MINOR DISCRIMINATION (mental health/illness discrimination, class discrimination between choirs of angels, and discrimination between fallen angels and demons)

ALSO INCLUDES CASUAL CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL & TOBACCO

*Nothing bad happens to Lucifer’s pet cat.