TheBloodyPathHome is not a place; it’s a journey.
The slow return through blood, faith, and ruin to whatever waits beyond the veil.
I am Mike T. Whitman, author and creator of The Bloody Path Home and the Bloodstained Dreams saga, worlds where dark fantasy, gothic horror, and mythic storytelling converge.
Through novels, cinematic tales, and ritual hymns drawn from occult and divine horror, each work here is a fragment of that pilgrimage.
These creations are works of art and imagination, not doctrine or devotion, reflections on the myths, fears, and faiths that shape us all.
Because in the end, we’re all searching for the same thing:
A way home, no matter what it costs.
🩸 Subscribe, and walk the path with me, one step deeper into the dark.
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Winter Solstice Rite — This Sunday at 10:03 a.m. EST ✨
At the stillpoint of the year, when the sun pauses on its longest night, a hymn rises for Morana, the Cold Mother.
On December 21 at 10:03 a.m. EST — the exact moment of the Winter Solstice — I’m releasing:
COLD MOTHER, BREAK THE YEAR
A hymn for the ending of the old year and the first breath of the new.
This image comes from the rite itself:
the straw effigy set to flame,
the letting-go of what can’t follow us forward,
the last bow to Winter’s Queen.
If you feel called to stand at that turning,
join the premiere.
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🕯️ Hymns to the Old Gods — Winter Schedule 🕯️
Thank you to everyone who has listened, liked, and stayed with the hymns so far. These are offerings, and timing matters.
❄️ Winter Hymns ❄️
• December — Morana
Winter’s Mother. Death, frost, and the breaking of the year.
Premiering on the Winter Solstice — 10:03 a.m. Eastern, the moment the year turns.
• January — Perchta
The Belly-Splitter. Judge of the Twelve Nights.
A hymn of winter law and reckoning.
Releases January 5.
• February — Persephone
Queen of the Underworld and the returning spring.
A hymn of descent, separation, and return.
Releases February 14.
🌒 Why one hymn per month?
Each hymn is aligned to a seasonal or mythic moment.
They’re released when they belong — not rushed, not diluted.
If there’s a deity or figure tied to a season you’d like to see honored, leave a suggestion below.
More offerings are coming.
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The tally is spoken: two hundred travelers cross the threshold.
At the crossroads, the lanterns flare.
Old paths tremble.
New ones open like wounds in the dark.
Your presence shapes the way forward.
Thank you for answering the call.
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The poll is closed.
The omen is read.
The will is known.
Morana claims the Solstice.
Winter’s Death spreads Her mantle across the longest night,
and we answer with a Hymn carved from frost and silence.
Prepare yourselves—
for the cold remembers every soul.
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On the Winter Solstice, one name will rise.
When the longest night folds the world beneath its shadow, a single Hymn shall be forged in smoke and devotion.
Three powers wait at the edge of the dark:
🕯️ Hel — the quiet frost beneath every ending, the keeper of what cannot return.
🌨️ Morana — winter’s beautiful ruin, whose breath withers the last warmth of the year.
🜍 Saturn — the ancient devourer, crowned in chaos, who laughs when the old order burns.
Which deity’s Hymn shall be raised at the Solstice?
Cast your vote, and let the night decide.
Hel. Morana. Saturn.
Choose the power you dare summon when the sun stands still.
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🔮 A hundred travelers now walk the path.
The circle widens.
The whispers grow louder.
The Mother’s voice carries farther through the dark.
Come, listen, and let the veil thin once more.
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🩸 The Path Clarified 🩸
The Bloody Path Home was never meant as worship — but as witness.
Through story, sound, and shadow, I explore what others fear to name: the divine, the damned, and everything between.
These hymns, tales, and visions are works of art — reflections on belief, not commands of it.
Light, darkness, faith, and doubt all have their place here.
Because in the end, we’re all searching for the same thing:
A way home, no matter what it costs.
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🩸 The Halloween Descent Begins.
Beneath the mask, every truth burns. Every hunger wakes.
Episode V – “Masquerade of Ash” is now live.
Enter the night, and face what waits beneath the velvet sky.
🎥 Watch the full chapter
#BloodstainedDreams #Halloween2025 #GothicMetal #DarkFantasy #giothgirl
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🩸 Fifty travelers now walk the path.
The first hymn — “Come to the Arms of Thy Mother” — has been heard a thousand times.
It began as a whisper in the dark — a search for what others turn from,
a light found only by walking where fear keeps most away.
And soon, another flame will rise at the crossroads…
Hecate’s Hymn arrives November 16.
Thank you for choosing the unknown.
The night remembers. 🕯️
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