Clive Barker's Undying

Clive Barker's Undying is a horror first-person shooter from EA Los Angeles, published by EA Games. Horror writer Clive Barker wrote the story and also voiced the character Ambrose Covenant. The game follows Patrick Galloway, an Irish paranormal investigator from the 1920s, who looks into strange occult events at the estate of his friend Jeremiah Covenant. Critics gave it good reviews, and it later developed a cult following.

In 1923, World War I veteran Patrick Galloway gets an urgent letter from his friend Jeremiah Covenant. Jeremiah, who knows Galloway deals with the occult, is dying and claims a curse has wiped out his family. Galloway goes to the Covenant estate on the Irish coast, where Jeremiah tells him a wild story of supernatural horrors. Jeremiah is the oldest of five children: twins Bethany and Aaron, then Ambrose, and youngest Lizbeth. As kids, the Covenants found an occult book in their father’s library and performed a ritual at ancient standing stones on an island in the family’s estate. That childish game brought evil forces down on them. As adults, each sibling went mad and died, leaving Jeremiah alone. But the curse reanimated his siblings as monstrous beings, haunting him, and he fears he will soon follow them.

Galloway agrees to stop what was set in motion at the stones. Through journals and his own memories, he learns about the curse and its source: the Undying King, a demonic entity threatening reality. He also has a vision of ancient priests burying a Celtic king alive as part of a ritual. To stop the Undying King from entering the world, Patrick must fight the four undead Covenant siblings and Count Otto Keisinger, an evil rival seeking power from the demons. As he unravels the family’s mysteries, Patrick travels through time and space, visiting the ancient past and other dimensions. In the past, he reaches a monastery where the only weapon that can permanently kill the siblings—the Scythe of the Celts—is kept. But the Scythe’s presence has turned the monks into murderous psychopaths.

After getting the Scythe, Patrick kills Lizbeth in the family catacombs and tosses her head off a cliff. Back at the mansion, he speaks with Jeremiah, but Ambrose interrupts. Ambrose demands the Gel’ziabar Stone Patrick carries in exchange for Jeremiah’s life, then beheads his brother anyway, turning into a hulking ogre-like monster.