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Maryann - Paranormal Horror
Sisters Myra and Vanessa split the rental for a cabin in a small, historic town on Hunger Lake, Maine. The plan is to enjoy a family get-together reminiscent of the summers the pair used to spend at their grandparents’ cabin as children. However, during the first night of the vacation, Myra wakes inexplicably in the lake to the screams of her ten year old son, Max, who is rendered terrified by a bizarre nightmare back inside the cabin.
Suddenly, Myra and Vanessa are reminded of the last summer they spent at their grandparents’ cabin - the summer their cousin nearly drowned. As the days pass, riddled with strange and contradicting memories, waking nightmares, and unsettling facts about the town, the sisters are forced into questioning whether the incident from their childhood was a freak accident, or the result of something sinister. Back in the path of an evil that lives in the lake, everything is suddenly a threat and getting away is the only solution.
I used to visit my grandparents in Maine every summer. When my grandfather passed away, my grandmother moved, and I no longer visited the quaint, seaside town where they had lived. Fast forward about fifteen years and my family got together at a lake in Maine to bury my grandmother. Driving north into the state with my husband and our children, experiencing the old haunts with fresh eyes and new experiences, something festered in me. Those little inklings became the fodder for this paranormal horror about a family vacation that goes unfortunately awry.
This book is for lovers of: Cabin horror, lake horror, vacations gone wrong, possession, New England witches, La Llorona, trippy hauntings, and old-fashioned ghost stories.
Untitled — Gothic, Historical Horromance
Orphaned at a young age and raised by her aunt and uncle in Indianapolis, Minnie Riley never knew why she was different. Her guardians avoided speaking of her birth parents, leaving her with questions surrounding her uncommon appearance and the peculiar necklace left with her in her infancy. All Minnie is sure of is that she looks nothing like her family, and that her marriage has already been arranged.
When it comes time for her to meet her intended, however, Minnie is surprised by his physical appearance. Even more than that, though, she is left with questions when he acts like he’s known her for years, even declaring his love for her after meeting for the first time. Things get more peculiar and frightening when she moves into his Indianapolis home, meets his otherworldly friends, and experiences monsters, hauntings and disjunct timelines. After her new husband admits that he works as an ambassador to other-beings on behalf of an unknowing humanity, she journeys with him to Michigan and back in search of answers to questions she is only just learning center around her. Questions a out a great and terrifying power hell-bent on wreaking Chaos.
I love a love story where one or both partners will do anything for the other — even if it has unintended, universal consequences! I also love historical fiction, and for the fashion alone, I love the 1910s and 1920s. It made sense to me to fit this story into that time era, in Middle America, especially because I wanted to use some American cryptids and see how they correspond with and differ from old-world folk monsters. I started drafting this after watching my husband play Black Myth Wukong and reading up on Chinese mythology I had never heard before.
This book is for lovers of: CW’s Supernatural, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, In/Spectre, Daily Life of an Immortal King, Great-War era America, the American Midwest, American cryptids, Old-World monsters and folklore, folk-tale reimagining, first person POV, timey-wimey plots
Short Stories
A highway ice cream stand, a strange hospitalization, a craft fair with odd dolls, a girl waiting to meet an old crush…
There may be monsters, grotesqueries, curses, or maybe nothing scary at all. There’s only one way to find out.