The Human Resources of Darkness
The villain won, the realm is collapsing, and the only person who can save it is a divorced office manager with a spreadsheet.
Description
The war is over. Evil won.
Lord Vanketh the Dominator has conquered every kingdom, crushed every army, and claimed every throne. He expected this to be the hard part.
He was wrong.
An empire is easy to seize and nearly impossible to run. The Shadow Realm is fracturing, supply chains have collapsed, factions are tearing at each other, and dark magic has proven useless at solving org charts, accountability, or basic operations.
In desperation, Vanketh performs an ancient summoning ritual meant to conjure a being of terrible and limitless power. What steps out of the smoke is Gary Hollander: forty-seven, divorced, operations manager for a mid-sized paper supply company, holding a coffee mug that says World’s Okayest Dad.
Gary has never wielded a weapon or cast a spell. But he does know how to build a process, untangle a reporting structure, and survive meetings no one else wants to attend.
The Human Resources of Darkness is a comic fantasy about what happens after the bad guys win and discover that conquest was the easy part.
Themes
- Workplace competence as a fantasy superpower
- Corporate satire inside a conquered dark empire
- Found family disguised as a dysfunctional work team
- Burnout, identity, and reluctant purpose
- What happens after evil wins the war