THE STORIES WE TELL Iris, able to see glimpses of the future, discovers an abandoned child and believes it’s the baby she was forced to surrender in a story of accepting fate versus challenging it. But first, she must face the fact that the truth is the hardest story to tell. #miserypit #A #CT #Q
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Querying spooky novels 📚👽👻 lover of paranormal thrillers & Romantasy
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY X MONSTERS WE MAKE For Solace, streaming is a desperate hustle to keep the lights on. But when a cryptic job offer slides into his DMs he assumes it’s some twisted ARG. until they start showing up for real. #MiseryPit #YA #SFFT #WIP #FT
ALL THE SINNERS BLEED X YELLOWSTONE 💉A serial killer deathly good at twisting the righteous words 🚓 A local cop racing to stop a Luciferian evil 🥃 Moonshine, mining, & madness 🤕 Traumatic pasts 👻 Haunting history of the Irish who came to the US & settled the West #A #T #Q #miserypit
Locked house style mystery IS IT YOU? Being stuck on the moon with a killer, that’s Andrew’s misfortune. Now, he’s running for his life and doesn’t know who to trust. Andrew must see through the secrets and lies to get off the moon base alive. #MiseryPit #Querying #A #SFFM
My 65,000 word speculative thriller features the psychological tension and darker undertones of THE GIRLS I’VE BEEN by Tess Sharpe and delivers social commentaries and features a ticking clock like in ACE OF SPADES by Farida Àbíké-Íyímídé. #MiseryPit #Q #YA #T #H
MURDER, SHE KINKED: Ava is a writer working at being a dominatrix as research for her next novel. When her best friend and mentor is brutally murdered, she continues in the business to search for the killer. Will she be the next victim? #A #CT #Q #MiseryPit
Stephen King's IT x Monsters, Inc. An otherworldly terror is coming for Tim Beaulieu and his daughter Cleo. Tim must look into his past in order to save their future. Will they be able to defeat THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET? #A #Horror #Q #MiseryPit
Vampires, Wealth, inspired by The Godfather A peasant girl becomes the mastermind behind an evil power seeking to enslave humanity. She must choose between strength and death on her 25th birthday. Will her need for strength consume her, and how many must die for her to find out? #MiseryPit #Q #HT
DONT LET THE FOREST IN x TOGETHER WE ROT A botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his kegger as a siren lures him and his friends into the water in this dark re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay. #miserypit #Q #YA #T
#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit
JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE Professional hitman Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. 🩸 cosmic horror 🩸 criminal underworld 🩸 married MCs 🩸 villain protagonist #MiseryPit #WIP #A #SFFT
A string of mysterious deaths leads high school seniors Jennifer and August to the elite Uther Academy. Slowly, they unravel a two-hundred-year-old secret at the beating heart of the school. But can they uncover Uther’s secret before the school swallows them whole? #MiseryPit #Q #YA #M Art-Evy Abel
Dorian Gray X Frankenstein At a gothic university steeped in mist and secrets, a disillusioned scholar and a beautiful, haunted student make a pact to cheat death through alchemy. But as obsession twists into tragedy, they must face the cost of immortality—and love. #MiseryPit #YA #HT #FT #WIP
SHARP OBJECTS X HILL HOUSE w/ (10) lit agent interest✨ Baylor’s obsession with Kara is dark and consuming—even on their first date. But when she vanishes, he’s hunted by his doppelgänger and must confront himself before time ticks. #MiseryPit #H #T #A #Q #querying #litagents
A Fate tasked with scheduling the lives and deaths of mortals must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on the doorstep of her best friend, Death. Whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea X small town charm of Murder, She Wrote #MiseryPit #A #Q #FM
#MiseryPit As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her. Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place. But what is the stranger’s motive? And does Evie want to be saved? #CT #A
Ocean's Eleven X The Naked Gun A man unemployed so long the foster home he & his wife run will be foreclosed, must mend his relationship with his retired master thief father, with Alzheimer’s, and turn to crime. The score? A portrait of the Prez and one million cash. #MiseryPit #A #CT #WIP Satire
GUMSHOE FRANKENSTEIN: A real-life Frankenstein's monster seeks a Dracula ring stolen by the secret immortality cult that runs Hollywood. Hardboiled and snarky. 68K words. Will appeal to Jim Butcher fans, and would fit inside the world of Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water. #MiseryPit #A #FM #Q
True crime meets cozy in an 1910 setting in a tour de force of burglaries, smuggling, murders and top notch international police cooperation. Anna and Christian do som uplifting detective work – quite literally. And the criminals are … unusual. #MiseryPit #TCM #HM #A #Q ⌨️📖💙📚
WEDNESDAY X THE SECRET ADVERSARY Husband and wife duo Elsie and Giles race to find a long lost laboratory at the boarding school where they teach, before a mysterious figure can uncover the lab's secrets or put their students in danger. #Miserypit #A #CM #Q
When 5% of the dead reanimate, the most violent are immediately culled. The remaining are trained to do the jobs most dangerous to humans. At Camp Reclaim, Zedizens Mo and Jay must prove their worth to survive a brutal system that strips away humanity piece by piece. #WIP #A #H #MiseryPit
MI5 Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #litagents 🦋
Hosts of the popular podcast “Reopening” examine the case of The Elkhorn Four, a series of ritualistic murders from 2016. As the case unfolds through interviews, their perception of reality is shattered and their duty to report the truth is challenged. TRUE DETECTIVE + TWIN PEAKS #MiseryPit #CT #Q