“The Lanterns of Winterveil: A Tale of Secrets And Shadows” is a haunting journey to an island where the dead are never buried, the sea keeps its secrets, and the lanterns burn against an ancient darkness that hungers for the living.
Winterveil is a place forgotten by time — ice bound, storm scarred, and ruled by rituals older than memory. The lanterns must be tended. The veil must be guarded. And the sea must be obeyed.
Those who live on the island whisper of shadows rising from the waves, of voices carried on the wind, of figures seen on the cliffs when the moon is thin. Some say the lanterns keep the dead at bay. Others say they only illuminate what should remain unseen.
When strange signs begin appearing in the night — lanterns burning too bright, footsteps where no living soul walks, and a presence watching from the cliffs — Winterveil stirs. Something ancient is waking. Something that remembers every life the island has ever claimed.
In a land where the living and the dead walk closer than breath, truth is a dangerous thing… and some secrets refuse to stay beneath the surface.
In a land where the dead are never buried… some truths refuse to stay beneath the surface
Happy Halloween. A volume of Horrible Haunts & Twisted Tales taken from the horror books La Belle Rouge has written every October for a decade and a half. If you have read her works in the horror genre, you know the invitation is for you to enjoy thr
Grab those side-irons, saddle up and join former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry for a ride into pure terror, western-style…think ‘Wild Wild West’ meets ‘The X-Files’.