The Hollow House
Mara returns to Ashwood to find her missing sister and discovers a house whose walls have been collecting the village’s voices for generations.
All Genres
† 8 Stories
Gothic Horror
Crumbling manors, cursed bloodlines, and the rot that seeps through the walls of civilisation. Stories of ancestral sins and houses that remember.
The Bone Choir
A monk sent to silence singing beneath the cathedral learns that the dead are not demanding prayer. They are demanding to be named.
The Widow of Saltmere
The widow’s seven husbands died before their first anniversaries. Her eighth suitor comes to expose a murderer and finds a bargain with the sea.
The Portrait Beneath the Stairs
A conservator uncovers the painted child her family erased from history—and the child reaches out of the canvas to recover her name.
Blackthorn Abbey
A novice learns that the thorns strangling her abbey are not a curse. They are the lock on something the saints failed to kill.
The Rooms That Breathe
A maid discovers that her employer’s mansion remains alive by stealing breath from everyone who sleeps beneath its roof.
A Bell for Mourning
A funeral bell that predicts death has made a town prosperous. Its sexton discovers what the bell expects in return.
The Ashwood Inheritance
An heir arrives to claim a manor and learns why one portrait in every generation is left deliberately empty.