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Two moments. Same entity. The offer — and the arrival.

This bundle includes both 3D digital art variations of Pallid and the Idle Man from The Plot Calls universe — the first official visual representations of two of the series' central figures.

Variation 1 — Pallid with arms spread wide, the porcelain hand rising from the dark earth in a glowing, shimmering offer. The moment before. The invitation still open.

Variation 2 — Pallid head bowed, the hand rising from the same rippling soil. The moment after. The decision already made, the Idle Man already arriving.

Together, they tell the full beat of what The Plot Calls documents: not the monster, not the jump scare — the transaction. The exact moment a person stops wrestling with what they want and lets something older than language do the math for them.

AI-assisted 3D renderings, modified and directed by series author Mark A. Figueroa. Part of the growing digital art collection from The Plot Calls universe.

What you receive

• 2 high-resolution digital image files (PNG for each)
• Both Variation 1 and Variation 2 - 1024 px each
• Instant download — delivered immediately after purchase
• For personal use: desktop wallpaper, printing, display
• Licensed for personal non-commercial use
• Save $4.99 vs. purchasing individually

The first piece of a growing visual universe. More characters, more moments, and more worlds from The Plot Calls are coming.

The Plot appears as a shimmering patch of earth. The One Beneath extends its porcelain hand — and waits.

This is Pallid — the form The One Beneath takes when it decides you're ready to be seen. Robed. Still. Arms open not as a welcome, but as a perimeter. The porcelain hand rising from the dark, rippling earth in front of it isn't asking. It's already accepted. The only question is whether you'll reach back.

The neighborhood in the background isn't incidental. That's the point. The Sideways doesn't find you somewhere strange. It finds you somewhere familiar. Under the trees. In the yard. Somewhere the light from other people's windows can't quite reach you.

This is original digital artwork from The Plot Calls universe — AI-assisted 3D rendering, modified and directed by the series' author, Mark A. Figueroa. It is the first visual representation of two of the series' central figures: Pallid (The One Beneath in its manifest form) and the Idle Man's emergence — the moment just before someone stops being a person and becomes something that simply waits.

What you receive

• 1 high-resolution digital image file (PNG)
• Instant download — delivered immediately after purchase
• For personal use: desktop wallpaper, printing, display
• Licensed for personal non-commercial use

Part of The Plot Calls digital art collection. Collect both variations — or save with the bundle.

It doesn't reach for you. It doesn't need to. It just stands there — and lets you decide what you already know.

This is Pallid in the form that's harder to look away from. Head down. Patient. The arms that were open in another moment are at its sides now — because the offer has already been made, and something is already rising from the earth to meet it.

The porcelain hand emerges from the same dark, purple-rippling soil. The same Sideways. The same transaction. But in this variation, the weight of it is different — quieter, heavier, more inevitable. This is what it looks like after the decision has already been made. The Idle Man isn't being pulled anymore. It's arriving.

Behind it: suburban homes. Warm windows. Regular life, visible and completely useless. That distance — between the light in someone else's house and where you're standing — is the exact geography of The Plot Calls.

Original digital artwork from The Plot Calls universe — AI-assisted 3D rendering, modified and directed by series author Mark A. Figueroa. The second of two variations depicting the series' central figures: Pallid and the emerging Idle Man.

What you receive

• 1 high-resolution digital image file (PNG)
• Instant download — delivered immediately after purchase
• For personal use: desktop wallpaper, printing, display
• Licensed for personal non-commercial use

Part of The Plot Calls digital art collection. Collect both variations — or save with the bundle.

Something in the soil is listening.

It doesn't make promises. It doesn't need to. It simply holds up a mirror — and waits for you to make the first move.

The Plot Calls: Pride is the first volume in a seven-part dark supernatural horror anthology series exploring the sins that hollow us from the inside out. Five self-contained stories. One mythology threading through all of them. One ancient hunger that grows with every soul it consumes.
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Five people. Five hungers. Five pacts made in the dark.

A professor who believes reality should conform to her opinions — and finds something ancient willing to agree.

A surgeon who built a legacy in someone else's hospital, only to watch a younger hand take the scalpel he earned.

A beauty mogul who fed her most precious things to a shimmering patch of soil, nightly, in exchange for something time had already taken.

A tech billionaire whose empire was built on stolen innovation — and who discovers control is only borrowed, never owned.

A comedian who traded her soul for a comeback, and got exactly what she asked for.

They each heard the whisper. They each answered.

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What you're reading — and why it hits differently.

The Plot Calls isn't a traditional horror novel. It's a dark anthology series built like Black Mirror meets The Twilight Zone — each story complete on its own, each one feeding something larger. Every volume covers a new deadly sin. Every pact has a price the reader sees coming long before the characters do.

The horror here isn't loud. It's the quiet kind — the kind that builds in the space between what someone wants and what they're willing to pay for it. Atmospheric, psychological, and uncomfortably human.

Investigators Marcus Serling and Sam Erriden thread through the anthology, piecing together the disappearances the world can't explain. Their search for Marcus's missing grandfather leads somewhere older and stranger than either of them is prepared for. The series doesn't end with this book. It begins.

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This edition — direct from the author.

When you buy here, you're buying direct. No algorithms. No middlemen. Your purchase goes straight to the person who wrote, designed, and built this world.

The Plot Calls: Pride — Direct Edition includes:

• Full e-book (EPUB + PDF formats delivered immediately)
• A song for the title story, "Dr. Denier."
  

Who reads The Plot Calls?

This series is for you if:

• You loved Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone, or American Horror Story's anthology format
• You want horror that asks hard questions about vanity, legacy, and the hunger for validation
• You're a dark fantasy reader who wants something with real mythological depth
• You're tired of horror that relies on shock over substance
• You like stories where the protagonist's greatest enemy is themselves

The series at a glance.

The Plot Calls is a seven-book dark fantasy horror series, one volume per deadly sin:

Each book stands alone. Reading in order reveals a mythology that builds across all seven volumes — and into the two full novels that follow.

The plot thickens.

"The soil doesn't lie. Somewhere between the life you're living and the one you think you deserve, something ancient is listening."

Download now. The plot calls.

Two-Panel Comic Template Book 200 blank pages. Your story, already framed.

There's something about the two-panel layout that just clicks once you start using it. Two big horizontal panels, full-width, stacked clean. It sounds simple because it is — but simple doesn't mean limited. Some of the most striking pages in comics and manga lean on exactly this kind of restraint.

I made this book because I needed it. I wanted a physical sketchbook where I could sit down with a pencil or a pen and draft scenes without having to set anything up first. Two panels per page. Clean borders. Done. The layout does its job and stays out of the way.

This is 200 pages of that. 

The image is pretty self-explanatory. 

If you're a beginner learning to think in panels, this is a clean, low-pressure place to start. If you're a working artist who grinds pages regularly, this is 200 sessions waiting to happen.

This works with a bunch of drawing apps - photoshop, clipstudio (my love), Kira, and more. Anyway, enjoy!

Tag me on IG as you fill it up.  I'd love to see what you make with it:

@mark_a_figueroa

• 200 READY-TO-USE TWO-PANEL PAGES — Open it and start drawing. No grids to set up, no rulers, no fussing with layout. Each page gives you two clean, full-width horizontal panels that are perfectly proportioned for comics, manga, manhwa, and storyboards. Just bring your story.
  
  
• BUILT FOR STORYTELLERS WHO MOVE FAST — The two-panel layout is one of the most powerful tools in comics. It's perfect for dramatic scene transitions, wide establishing shots, intense face-offs, and pages that breathe. Whether you're plotting a graphic novel or drafting a webcomic, this format gives your panels room to live.
  
  
• NOT JUST FOR COMICS — Storyboarders use it for shot breakdowns. Animators use it for key frame planning. Writers use it to visualize chapter beats before scripting. The ownership page even includes prompts to use it as an outline, table of contents, or tracking log — it's a creative workhorse.
  
  
• A GREAT ENTRY POINT FOR BEGINNERS, A SERIOUS TOOL FOR PROS — If you're just getting into making comics or manga, the two-panel layout teaches you to think visually in a simple, powerful frame. If you're an experienced artist, it's a great format for short-form storytelling and anthology-style work.
  
  
• QUALITY PAGES, CLEAN DESIGN — Printed on standard 8.5" x 11" pages. The panel borders are crisp and the layout stays out of your way. Includes an ownership page and notes section so you can organize your work from page one.