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Querying spooky novels 📚👽👻 lover of paranormal thrillers & Romantasy

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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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

Glitch in Reality Moodboard; It has some spooky forest imagery, Monster hunter aesthetic, greens, browns, and some evidence tapes.

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

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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

Mood board of alternating images mocking up a cover for The Hollow, a 98K Historical Horror by J.W. Gant.
Upper left is Isabella wearing a long leather woolen coat and sunglasses. Upper right is a foggy image of a figure in a tunnel. Bottom left is a lone man walking in a foggy forest. Bottom right is a foggy cemetery near nightfall.

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

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AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.

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

School crest of Uther Academy.

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

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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

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

Mockup cover for 
How to Steal From the President While Saving a Foster Home by J.W. Gant
Words float across a pastel blue sky with puffs of white clouds scattered about.
"A Silly Caper Story"

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

A mood board of fall and academic scenes.

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 🦋

Six images are arranged against a dark grey background. Clockwise from top left, these are: 

A green background with lines of code running down it. A man’s body is silhouetted against the lines of code.

A sepia image of a paper target with nine bullet holes, most clustered around the inner circles.

A sepia effect image of an old-fashioned box camera and strip of negative film.

The silhouette of a man on his knees in a dark alley, with his hands behind his head.

A blue passport with Deutsche Demokratisch Republic - Reisepass stamped on the cover.

A sepia image of an old-fashioned, twin-bell alarm clock. The time reads 11.20.

The collage of images has two circular red stamps embossed on it: one reads ‘Classified’ and the other ‘Top Secret’. 

Images from Pixabay.