That Hideous Light
It all begins with an idea. Maybe there’s more than what you see on this ship. Maybe you want to climb up and see the horizon, watch the sun light up the world. Whatever it is, when your journey to the top deck begins, the one thing to remember is to keep climbing.
Not all that dazzles saves.
What if the world itself were a cruise ship, glittering with lights, overflowing with pleasures, promising endless fun, yet sailing always under the hand of a captain who does not love us?
A man awakens in a windowless cabin belowdecks and begins to climb. Each level of the ship reveals another temptation, another illusion, another trial of the soul. The attendants smile like friends, but their masks are slipping. The higher he goes, the more he longs not just for another deck, but for escape.
This is a story about awakening in a false world, struggling through its vices and virtues, and finally discovering that salvation lies not in climbing higher within the ship, but in letting go of it altogether and being carried into the true Light.
Seraphim George crafts a novel that is part parable, part psychological odyssey. That Hideous Light explores how easily illusions can captivate us, how tempting false promises can be, and how much courage it takes to turn from what dazzles toward what is real. At once timeless and urgently contemporary, this is a story for anyone who has ever questioned what they were told to believe, and who dares to seek the sun.