17 pgs. When a wildfire devastates the small town of Millfield, California, disaster archivist Dr. Sarah Chen is sent to recover what remains of its public library. Among the ruins, she begins encountering impossible phenomena—stories reappearing in the ashes, rewritten versions of books and personal records that seem to speak directly to the community’s grief….
66 pgs. In a fractured world still echoing with the hum of abandoned industry, a group of monks, scholars, and patrons leaves their monastery in search of a place whispered about in dreams and fragments of scripture – a hidden valley where the faithful are said to live untouched by hunger, fatigue, or despair. Their…
33 pgs In the rusted shadow of a fallen steel town, social worker Carmen Deluca joins a clinical trial that promises to reverse the cellular damage of stress. The treatment works – her body heals, her mind sharpens, and the noise of exhaustion finally fades. But beneath the corporate language of “wellness” lies a quieter…
210 pgs The Mahoning Valley has always been haunted. Steel mills collapsed into silence, slag heaps groan in the dark, and old neighborhoods remember more than they should. In these pages, folklore and ruin intertwine – stories of strange lights, whispered warnings, and creatures that rise from the poisoned earth. Rust Belt Gothic: Volume 1,…
610 pgs. Spirits of the Mahoning is a sweeping narrative that blurs oral history, folklore, and speculative realism to explore the psychic residue of Ohio’s industrial collapse. Framed as a field journal compiled by folklorists, psychics, and machinists, the story documents a century’s worth of hauntings and inexplicable phenomena along the Mahoning River – apparitions…