Ellie Hawthorne doesn’t believe in ghosts. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t haunted…
A young physics professor fighting to keep her lab afloat, Ellie is one funding cut away from losing everything she’s worked for. So when a paranormal society offers her a generous grant in exchange for a three-night investigation of the mysterious Bruker House in northern Maine, she reluctantly accepts.
At the secluded estate, Ellie’s skepticism clashes with the investigators’ unorthodox beliefs. As they uncover the house’s dark history together—the unexplained disappearances, the occult symbols carved into its walls, and a malevolent presence that blurs the line between reality and nightmare—Ellie remains in denial.
Until she’s the only one left.
Alone in Bruker House, Ellie discovers the darkness not only surrounds her but has taken root within her, forcing her to confront memories she’s long kept buried. To escape, she must face both the evil that stalks the halls and the ghosts of her own past… or share the fate of those who entered before her.
The void is calling. Will you answer?
Beyond rational thought. Beyond certainty. Beyond the safety of the light, something waits.
Thirteen tales of supernatural horror, cosmic dread, and the price of forbidden knowledge, where curiosity demands a terrible price, vengeance leaves only ruin, and those unfortunate enough to glimpse the abyss discover that there are fates far worse than death.
Patrick Wallace’s debut collection draws on the tradition of the literary weird while carving out a voice all its own. Fans of The Imago Sequence, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, and other works of modern weird fiction will feel right at home.
So keep your guard up, hold your loved ones close, and don’t let the call from the void rise above a whisper.
