Analogue of Horror

1. Shadows Are Falling (Coming Winter 2025)
2. The Dominant One (Audiobook Sample)
3. Break My Bones (Revision) & (Rerelease) Coming Soon
4. The Omni Hotel & Charlie Dickens
5. The Giggling Granny
6. Silent Night Deadly Night & Black Christmas
7. King Sorrow (Joe Hill)

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📘 Shadows Are Falling

In the winter-bitten town of Fishbone, Montana, a young boy’s impossible death ignites a hunt for something neither human nor beast. Dr. Robert Qiu—brilliant, burdened, and haunted by his own past—arrives to unravel a mystery steeped in ice, blood, and restless spirits. As a malevolent force stirs beneath the town’s quiet surface, Robert must confront horrors both supernatural and personal before the shadows claim another victim. Some ghosts don’t stay buried. Some monsters aren’t born—they’re awakened.

“I think God likes to shake things up when he pulls the trigger,” the sheriff said. “Hell of a thing, really—and a hell of a task for our coroner. Separating those two bony sacks of meat must’ve been one nettlesome son of a bitch.”

Montana might as well have been another world, especially a place like Fishbone.

Not that he’d ever really existed in Boston. He’d only been pretending. The whir of the tires settled into a low vibration, dulling the edges of what lay ahead. Robert glanced at the rearview, half expecting the faces of the dead to stare back. To each his own. Some stayed with you; others you learned to let go. If only that were ours to choose.

Gabriel Connolly struggles with what’s right. Then, when he’s faced with pure evil, and realizes he has no choice, he tries to drown his soul-less friend in a river. But evil doesn't die.

And that’s just the start of Gabriel's new nightmare. You can’t cheat death, that’s the catch. Even worse, Gabriel realizes he may have passed on supernatural gifts to a heartless killer.

As fiendish plans and unspeakable atrocities are set in motion, Gabriel learns that he alone may hold the key to a series of terrifying events: a secret cabin in the woods, a hidden tomb housing a trail of dismembered corpses, the young killer who lingers in a coma intent on cheating death. And at last, a depraved madman hellbent on saving his only son’s life. Can Gabriel take back the gifts given and triumph over the wicked? And most importantly, will death lay claim in the end?

Re-Releasing Break My Bones: COMING SOON!

Thriller author Michael Kerrigan has outrun his past for years—until the dead man he thought he buried walks back into his life, hungry for revenge. Trapped in a deadly game where fiction turns terrifyingly real, Michael races to uncover the truth behind a betrayal that never stopped bleeding. As guilt cracks his sanity and a relentless killer closes in, he must confront the sins he tried to forget… or be the next body lowered into the ground.

When Clara woke that morning, anxiety curled up beside her. By late afternoon, under the weight of the thick summer heat, it had soured into something worse—fear. She pulled into the back lot of the police station. Trading her car service for a rental was a painful but necessary evil. After all, one couldn’t skulk around in a Mercedes—it simply wouldn’t do. In a dollar-store town like this, only the cars bought on low wages went unnoticed. Economy all the way, she thought rather darkly to herself. Anything else would stick out, just like one of those proverbial, sore thumbs everyone talks about. She was hardly a surveillance trailblazer. Still, she sent it out into the universe. Maybe I’ll fashion a pair of designer detective goggles. Couture or not, my boy’s in trouble. She needed answers—simple as that.

History

• Established in 1855, Boston Massachusetts, it is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the United States.
• Famous for hosting notable guests, including Charles Dickens and John F.
  Kennedy.

Reported Hauntings

• Guests and staff have reported sightings of a ghostly figure believed to be the hotel's founder, Harvey Parker.
• Unexplained noises, flickering lights, and cold spots are commonly experienced.

Location

• Situated in downtown Boston, near the Freedom Trail and other historical sites.

Visitor Experience

• The hotel offers ghost tours and has a rich history that attracts both history buffs and those interested in the paranormal.

The 3rd floor reports of paranormal activity. Room 303 guests report strange shadows throughout the room and the bathtub water would just turn on randomly by itself. Management eventually turned this room into a storage closet for unspecified reasons. Some speculate that it was because a guest committed suicide in this room; but no one knows for sure.

Stephen King’s “1408” was inspired by the events occurring in Room 303

Charles Dickens

"This Literary Wonder" didn’t just pop in for one night only at the Omni Parker Hotel. On his second tour of the United States, he chose to make Boston, and the Omni Parker House, his home base. He rented out two suites of rooms on the third floor of the Omni Parker for about six months between 1867-1868.

Visitors to the Omni Parker unfortunately won’t be able to see or stay in the same rooms Dickens did, since the hotel was rebuilt after Dickens’ lengthy stay. However, you can still see two items of Charles Dickens memorabilia on display at the Omni Parker: the door to Dickens’ suite, and the mirror from his room.

The door to rooms 138-139 can be found displayed behind glass in the Omni Parker Hotel, with a plaque identifying it as the door to Dickens’ room. During Christmastime, staff at the Omni Parker hang a wreath in recognition of Dickens’ role in reviving the Christmas holiday with his famous novella, A Christmas Carol.

In the Omni Parker Hotel mezzanine, you can also see Charles Dickens’ hotel mirror, in front of which he supposedly practiced his famous dramatic readings of his works. The mirror is enormous, with an intricately carved wooden frame.

The plaque underneath it reads: “Mirror from the rooms at the Parker House occupied by Charles Dickens 1867 & 1868 authenticated by the Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship.” “Look closely and see reflections of Dickens as he practiced a ‘Christmas Carol.’”

Some people believe that the Omni Parker House is haunted by the ghost of Charles Dickens. There’s an urban legend that if you stand in front of Dickens’ mirror and call his name, the elevator bells will chime. Some people have even claimed to have seen Dickens’ reflection in the mezzanine mirror.

There have been other reports of Dickens haunting the Omni Parker. Some people report smelling cigar smoke on the third floor, where Dickens’ rooms were located. There have also been reports that the elevator will frequently call at the third floor, the floor on which Dickens stayed, even when no one pushed the 3rd floor button.

Nannie Doss, an American serial killer who killed four of her husbands, two children, two sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Nannie Doss may have seemed like “a loving grandmother with a charming smile,” but investigators began to suspect there was something sinister behind that smile after every member of her family mysteriously died, one by one, over the years.

Doss’ childhood was heavily impacted by her “abusive and demanding” father, Jim Hazle. Born in 1905 in Calhoun County, Ala., Doss was said to have “had an unhappy and difficult childhood,” as her father largely kept her out of school to work on the family’s farm. He “forbade his daughters from wearing makeup or dress clothes” growing up.

Doss slammed her head into a metal bar when aboard a train.The injury led to “severe headaches,” possibly impacting her view of life as a whole.

Doss had five husbands throughout her life, first marrying at the encouragement of her father when she was 16 years old. She and her first husband, Charley Braggs, had four daughters between 1923 to 1927 while living with his mother, leading Doss’ becoming increasingly stressed. Two of her daughters suddenly died in 1927 from suspected food poisoning, prompting Braggs to become suspicious and leave his wife, taking his oldest daughter Melvina with him.

He was the one surviving husband throughout Doss’ life.

Doss went on to marry four more men – Frank Harrelson, an “alcoholic” who died after ingesting rat poison 16 years into their marriage; Artie Lanning, “an alcoholic womanizer” who also died after ingesting rat poison soon before Doss allegedly burnt down their house with his mother inside; Richard Morton, who died three months into their marriage after drinking coffee spiked with arsenic, and Samuel Doss, a “Nazarene minister who disapproved of Doss's romance novels” and died a little more than a year into their marriage from a similar arsenic poison found in his coffee.

Doss’ final husband’s death raised suspicion. An autopsy revealed a “massive” amount of arsenic in his system.

In the end, Doss admitted to murdering 11 of her family members. She was nicknamed the "Giggling Granny" because she kept bursting into fits of laughter while confessing.

After witnessing his parents’ brutal murder by a man dressed as Santa Claus, young Billy grows up traumatized and unstable. Years later, working at a toy store during the Christmas season, Billy is forced into a Santa suit, triggering a violent breakdown. As he embraces a twisted version of holiday justice, Billy embarks on a bloody killing spree, punishing those he deems “naughty” in the name of Christmas. 🎅🔪

During the Christmas holidays, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered by an unseen killer who hides inside their house. As obscene phone calls escalate into deadly violence, the women and local police race to uncover the source of the terror before it’s too late.

Joe Hill writes like he’s carving runes into bone, and King Sorrow proves he’s still sharpening the blade.

At its center is Arthur Oakes, a linguist, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College in Maine, a place of frosty winters, beautiful buildings, and a legendary library. Arthur’s quiet idyll, and his budding romance with the brilliant Gwen Underfoot, shatters when a local drug dealer forces him into an unthinkable crime: stealing rare books from the college library to protect his incarcerated mother.

Cornered and terrified, Arthur turns to his closest friends. What follows is wonder colliding headfirst with horror. Wealthy, reckless Colin Wren proposes a solution ripped from nightmare and myth: using the infamous Crane journal, bound in human skin, to summon a dragon. Alison Shiner, the fierce McBride twins Donna and Donovan, and the sharp-minded Gwen don’t hesitate. Friendship, after all, is a powerful kind of magic.

But dragons demand their due. The creature they summon, King Sorrow, binds them to a pact that will echo for years. One sacrifice every year, or become his next meal.

Hill turns this premise into something exhilarating and devastating. King Sorrow is about friendships forged in terror, love sharpened by fear, and the true cost of sacrifice. The horror is vivid, the wonder intoxicating, and the heartbreak unavoidable.

By the end, the book doesn’t just linger. It leaves you changed, carrying its weight and its wonder long after the last page.

King Sorrow holds wonder and love, terror and betrayal, heartbreak and exhilaration, and leaves with my heart in its claws.

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