Dennis Mackulin has spent years studying two things most people keep in separate rooms: the religions of ancient Egypt and Greece, and Reformed theology. His fiction puts them in the same room.
A trip to Egypt turned the study into something he could not put down. He walked through temples and tombs built to outlast everything, came home to Homer, Alaska, and kept reading: Egyptian religion next to the Reformers, Greek mythology next to the church fathers.
The Hand That Caught Me came first: Dante’s Inferno retold in Egyptian shadow, where the scale that weighs the heart is real and the mercy that catches the condemned does not lower the standard. Pilgrim’s Transgress followed, a Bunyan allegory in verse for a church that has grown comfortable with confusion.
Menkhef is where it all lands. A novel in an original world built from Egyptian and Greek sources, where two civilizations have each found a way to escape death and a young outsider is carrying the one piece of evidence that neither answer is the whole truth.
Dennis lives in Homer, Alaska, with his wife Kathryn. He has worked as a professional photographer, a graphic designer, and a correctional officer, and has studied Reformed theology, church history, and presuppositional apologetics for most of his adult life.
Menkhef
Two civilizations, each built on a different way to escape death. A sealed gate. A young outsider carrying a fragment of the pillar that sealed it. Every chapter is the cost of looking for a third answer.
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