How long can a person live with regret? What about guilt? For some people, they can either hold it for a lifetime or become a broken shell. For others, however, guilt and regret can also create unexpected consequences. In this tale, an old man finds himself out on a harsh winter's night looking for shelter when he comes across an old, abandoned farmhouse. As the old man knocks on the house's front door to see if anyone lives there, little does he realize that he's knocking on the very entrance of madness itself.

What begins as a search for warmth will see this old man face the horrors of a night he will never forget. Told between the lines of truth and fiction, this book dives into the origins of a person who will change the way the entire world thinks unless the world changes them first while making the reader wonder if a person can truly be haunted or if the haunting is truly made up in a person's head.

Throughout a single night, the old man is terrorized and haunted by the house as it pulls him into the madness of the doors that stand before him. Or is something taunting the old man from the other side of those doors? Memories are often said to be the doorways of our lives, back to the days of our younger days, but for this old man, these memories are reliving themselves through the very house itself. Literal ghosts taunt and take their wrath against the man as he relives memories once more. However, not everything is as what it seems as he is reliving those memories from different lifetimes in a sequence of non-stop nightmares.

Or is he? In a world where things are not as they seem, what seems to be the truth isn't always what is seen. Especially in a house that throws your body through doors and against walls. Especially with a man who is more than what he seems. So, why is he finding himself living in a nightmare? Even more so, why are the nightmares reawakening spirits that only this man knows about? Do the demons within the old, abandoned farmhouse know him, or does he recognize them? When the night and the farmhouse are finished with the man, an ending will be shown, but so will a new beginning.

Not everything you see is as it appears to be. With JP Raley's voice, Ogmios Rising merges the lines of fiction and nonfiction with a mystery that leaves readers guessing what is genuinely going on, leaving a trail that will lead directly into the next book currently being written. In a world where we need to focus more on mental health, this book asks you the question, what is it that you are truly seeing? Begin the journey of a new trilogy of tales that questions what we know by offering new and alternative ideas on what we really know about the world around us.