9 Lords of Night
Book Two of the Coil Series
The Darkness Crosses Over
Manhattan drowns beneath the first snows of October. A Nor’easter howls down the avenues, and amid the storm a killer begins his ritual hunt.
He leaves symbols carved in flesh, hearts torn away, and a name whispered through the city like a curse—The Night Drinker.
Detective Néstor Buñuel is assigned to the case, though it will be his last before retirement. He is brilliant, haunted, and hardened by a world that never fully recognizes his trans identity..
But the killer he pursues is only the beginning. Behind the murders moves something older — creatures slipping through from Mictlán, the Aztec underworld that first breached reality in 13 Secret Cities.
A Cursed Film No One Was Meant to See
At the center of the investigation lies a film that should not exist: 9 Lords of Night, the lost creation of the reclusive film director Samuel Kahan, a visionary who was hailed as one of the best auteurs of our time— and later whispered to have trafficked with gods and the occult.
Each frame of Kahan’s masterpiece carries a curse, and every viewing opens a doorway. As Néstor hunts the Night Drinker, he realizes the film isn’t merely the killer’s obsession. It’s the script being written onto his own life.
A Bold, New Descent
9 Lords of Night expands The Coil Series into something stranger and more luminous — a supernatural noir where myth, cinema, and queer identity intertwine.
It is not a conventional sequel.
It breaks format, bends genre, and deepens the lore of the universe — a world where monsters wear human faces, and sometimes ancient gods and goddesses demand a sacrifice.
The Coil Continues
Read the Series:
13 Secret Cities(Book One)
Hall of Mirrors (Book Three — coming 2026)
🌗 Continue the Descent
The Coil Series continues in:
[9 Lords of Night →] (Book Two)
[Hall of Mirrors →] (Book Three, coming 2026)
