Hell's Tales
Infernal Archive · File I

Story Index

Every testimony has a date, a wound, and someone eager to misfile it.

Enter by order if order comforts you. Enter by sin, witness, territory, or bad luck if it does not.

The Bargain

A man accepts terms he barely reads. Hell, unlike the living, preserves the receipt.

When: February 22, near midnight. Holiday: The Feast of Broken Vows.

TemptationFree WillThe Threshold

The Pious

A holy man arrives expecting trumpets. The books below have been counting different things.

When: October 13, ninth bell. Holiday: The Feast of the Scapegoat.

HypocrisyJudgmentThe Court

The Accuser

Satan takes the stand. Heaven brings evidence; humanity appears in too many signatures.

When: August 19, Court Above. Holiday: The Day of the Accused.

RebellionBlameThe Tribunal

The Tribunal

The faithful demand justice. The dead beneath the glass have brought dates, names, and consequences.

When: November 13, first docket. Holiday: The Tribunal of Saints.

FaithAccountabilityThe Court

The Furnace Gospel

A forbidden scripture survives the furnace and suggests the first draft of Hell was not fire, but truth.

When: September 9, ash-hour. Holiday: The Festival of Forbidden Knowledge.

DoctrineRevisionThe Scriptorium

The Last Sermon

A preacher begins his last defense in the dark, before the audience he spent a lifetime inventing.

When: December 24-25, from 3:17 a.m. onward. Holiday: Unholy Night, shifting into Christmas in Hell if the visitation crosses midnight.

ReputationTruthThe Ash Chapel

Paths through the archive

Chronology: The Bargain → The Accuser → The Furnace Gospel → The Pious → The Tribunal → The Last Sermon.

By narrator: the condemned, the adversary, the clerk, the faithful, and the dead. No witness is neutral. No record is complete.