Hello horror fans! I want to tell you about my current project, “The House That Whispers”. As of today, the outline is complete and the story is 20% written. I hope to have it completed and ready for release in Spring 2025. Check back often, and I will update this page with my progress.
UPDATE: 4/3/2025 – “The House That Whispers” is up to 11,500 words.
Synopsis
In the dead of night, Dr. Evelyn Thorne, a renowned psychiatrist with a past she refuses to acknowledge, receives an unexpected letter. The letter is from the estate of Alistair Vane, an eccentric recluse who was found dead in his ancestral mansion under bizarre circumstances. The contents of the letter are simple:
“You have been chosen. Come home.”
Evelyn has never met Alistair Vane. She has no known ties to the Vanes or their decaying estate, Blackwood Manor, yet the letter is undeniably addressed to her. Against all reason, she feels compelled to go.
Upon arrival at Blackwood Manor—a sprawling, crumbling estate in the heart of an overgrown forest—she finds that the house is not abandoned. A small group of strangers, each having received a similar letter, have also arrived. None of them know why they were summoned. None of them have ever met Alistair Vane.
Then, on the first night, the whispering begins.
Voices in the walls. Shadows moving where no one stands. Secrets scrawled in forgotten journals, hinting that Alistair Vane was not merely a man, but a keeper of something far older, something buried beneath the foundations of the house.
As Evelyn and the others try to uncover why they were brought to Blackwood, they begin vanishing—one by one. The remaining guests are plagued by visions of things they should not remember, of lives they have not lived. The house is speaking to them, twisting their pasts, warping their minds.
And then Evelyn realizes the terrible truth.
They were not summoned to Blackwood Manor.
They were returned.
The Ritual of the Unbroken Circle
In 1802, Ambrose Vane and six others performed an unknown ritual deep within the manor, in a hidden chamber beneath the grand staircase. The details of this ritual remain unclear, but none of them ever left the house again. Servants reported hearing laughter and screaming in equal measure throughout the night, until silence fell at dawn.
When the house was searched the following day, every entrance to the underground chamber had vanished—sealed off as if they had never existed. Ambrose and his followers were gone. Their bodies were never found.
But their voices remained.
The Lore of Blackwood Manor
Long before Blackwood Manor was built, the land it stands upon was feared by the indigenous tribes who once inhabited the surrounding forest. They spoke of a Veil-Thin Place, where time did not move as it should, where voices from the past and future overlapped like echoes in a canyon. Those who strayed too close returned changed—if they returned at all.