Whispers of Nythara: Book one - The Unearthed Threshold
By @Sihle Moloi
Lin Mei-Ling, a gentle South African Chinese student, dismisses her sudden surge of enhanced strength, speed, and senses as mere stress after her 21st birthday. Her reality shatters when a strange, non-human pendant surfaces from a Cradle of Humanity cave. Though unsettling, Mei-Ling's logical mind attributes its oddities to an undiscovered ancient artifact. When this peculiar item is stolen and then inexplicably reappears in her bag, her attempt to return it triggers a cataclysmic shift. The world blurs, and Mei-Ling finds herself ripped from 21st-century Centurion, thrust into a world where the very air crackles with forgotten magic. Her 'gifts' are not fatigue-induced, but echoes of a truth far grander and more terrifying than she could ever imagine. Now, she must unravel the pendant's true purpose and navigate a perilous new reality, all while an unseen force hunts for what she unknowingly carries.
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SARK
By @Drew Bonnell
Quiet and reserved Drew Sark arrives at the infamous Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, hoping to escape his haunted past. But peace is a luxury he cannot afford. A string of brutal, ritualistic murders begins to plague the sleepy gothic town, and Drew is thrust directly into the bloody center of the investigation. Haunted by unsettling raven visions that offer prophetic, agonizing glimpses of impending deaths, he must wield his potent, unstable electrokinesis and sharp intellect to survive. His only anchor in this storm of dark secrets is his vibrant, colorful werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair. As the bodies pile up and the school's shadows deepen, Drew realizes the killer isn't just hunting outcasts - they are hunting him. To save those he is slowly learning to care for, Drew must unravel a web of ancient conspiracies, even if it means unleashing the destructive, lightning-charged monster dwelling deep within his own fractured soul.
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SARK
By @Drew Bonnell
Quiet and reserved fifteen-year-old Drew Sark arrives at the infamous Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, desperate for a fresh start. Instead, he is thrust into a living nightmare as a string of brutal, monstrous murders plagues the sleepy town. Haunted by unsettling raven visions that show him prophetic, gruesome glimpses of deaths before they happen, Drew must learn to navigate his volatile, unstable electrokinesis and an intellect sharper than any blade to survive. His only anchor in this gothic hellscape is his vibrant, bubbly werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair. As the blood toll rises, Drew's visions paint a target on his back. To stop the killer, he must unravel a dark web of ancient school secrets while fighting his own self-destructive obsession with solving the mystery. With every shock of lightning and bloody vision, Drew edges closer to a truth that threatens to consume his sanity and destroy the only home he has ever known.
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What the Echoes Remember
By @john1208
Jiri Kalas was a cartographer, a man who believed in the tangible world. But one morning, he wakes up not in his bed, but in the Silent Ward - a forgotten district of Kymor whose very existence is an urban legend. He is accused of a heinous crime: using Echo-craft to shatter the mind of a city official, a crime of which he has no memory. His only way back is to serve as an assistant to the Ward's sole, permanent resident: Lyzavet Skala, the infamous 'Memory-Thief' of Kymor. Cold, ruthless, and universally despised, Lyzavet is believed to have stolen the memories of her own family for power. Yet, as Jiri navigates the eerie, shifting streets of the Silent Ward under her watch, he sees glimpses of a different woman - one who secretly protects the district's spectral inhabitants and fights a hidden war. Jiri realizes his own wrongful conviction and Lyzavet's dark reputation are not separate tragedies, but two threads of the same sinister tapestry. Can he unravel the truth before the city's true villain erases them both from history?
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The Marrow-Bound Melody
By @john1208
Stellan Varik is the last of his line, a cheerful but aimless young man who inherits the crumbling Varik estate and its greatest treasure: a clavichord made of bone and weirwood. He soon learns the instrument is haunted by Alisa, the ghost of a musician sacrificed in a dark ritual a century ago. Bound to the clavichord, Alisa's only connection to the living world is through Stellan, who she can possess for fleeting moments. Together, they begin to piece together the truth of her murder, uncovering a conspiracy tied to a parasitic entity that feeds on the souls of the Varik family. Stellan, who has spent his life avoiding responsibility, finds a purpose in freeing the spirited ghost who has become his only companion. But the ritual that killed Alisa wasn't just a murder; it was a lock. What happens when the only way to save the ghost he's falling for is to unlock the cage and release the monster she was meant to contain?
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The Cenotaph Banquet
By @john1208
Inspector Yashar Tolun is infamous in the precinct for sleeping through his shifts and solving complex cases with minimal effort. But his chronic lethargy shatters when he wakes up inexplicably suspended in a massive nest of human hair, silverware, and hollowed bones, woven into the grand chandelier of Ulaveri's Table - the city’s most exclusive restaurant. Below him lie the grotesque remains of the city's elite. They are victims of a horrifying karmic plague: their necks snapped backward, violently regurgitating their own liquefied organs as compacted pellets. Chef Ulaveri had secretly captured and served the sacred Cenotaph-Owl to his patrons for an astronomical profit, and now the beast's spirit is collecting its toll. To break the curse before it consumes the diners' innocent families, Yashar teams up with Olaris, a melancholic scullery maid who survived the massacre. Accompanied by a soot-feathered owlet, they navigate the supernaturally sealed restaurant. But as Yashar investigates the gruesome aftermath, and Olaris recounts her desperate evasion of the chef in the dark cellars, the truth begins to blur. If Olaris's escape and the owl's slaughter are actually the exact same event, who is Yashar falling in love with?
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The hidden library of Algeez Grimm
By @why world ? why! ?
The random summonings of a Dragon hybrid who lives alone and hates it. Is too well read and can explain even the elderitch.
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Acolyte of Forgotten Altars
By @john1208
Zenthos, the Celestial Architect, was a grandmaster whose formations could ensnare gods. Now, he's Renzo Valeriani, a penniless man in a strange new world, waking up with amnesia at his own funeral. This Earth has no spiritual energy, but it seethes with something else: belief. Renzo discovers he can draw power from the faith and memory directed at others, turning reverence into fuel for his ancient arts. Taking a job as an undertaker's assistant, he finds himself at the nexus of belief - grief, remembrance, and fear. He begins creating 'altars' at the sites of strange deaths, weaving formations that draw power from local legends and tragedies. But his work attracts unwanted attention. The city's shadowed corners crawl with creatures of myth - vampiric covens and territorial lycans - who are being systematically hunted. As Renzo seeks clues to find other reincarnated cultivators from his lost home, he realizes the monster killings and his search for his people are not separate paths. Why are these ancient beings dying, and how is their demise connected to the disappearance of his own kind?
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Prayer and Magic
By @Larry Connor
In 1984 post-colonial India, a routine school trip to Chennai takes a nightmarish detour when a bus full of children gets lost on the forbidden Mount Zion. A thick, unnatural fog descends, trapping them with no escape. Among the panicked passengers is Sid, a hot-headed intellectual, whose scientific mind is ill-equipped for the horrors unfolding. Mount Zion, unknown to mortals, is the physical temple of Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge, guarded by Archons - entities that can bend logic and perception. As children vanish and reality warps, Sid must navigate this cosmic labyrinth, his quick temper clashing with the unfathomable, trying to protect the innocent from deities whose very existence threatens sanity, all while clinging to a sliver of hope in a world consumed by ancient, unknowable terror.
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The Serpent's Dowry
By @john1208
The story opens in a smoky mahjong parlor, where orphan servant Pei San is striking a cheeky deal to buy his freedom from the wealthy Jin family, using the chilling, pale woman standing behind him as leverage. He thinks he's brilliant. Days earlier in the rain-slicked alleys of 1987 Shiyan Town, Pei San had taken a brutal beating to save a black snake from the Jin heirs' firecrackers. Soon after, the immortal serpent manifested as Rong Yin, offering herself in marriage. Delighted, the shameless Pei San accepted, assuming he’d stumbled into a classic folklore tale where a beautiful spirit brings her husband effortless wealth. But he fundamentally misunderstood the rules of the supernatural. Rong Yin wasn't dying; she was undergoing a catastrophic tribulation, and Pei San's intervention accidentally bound their souls. Now, his "wife" is a fiercely possessive, eerie deity whose dowry is dominion over the town's lurking shadows. As the Jin family's arrogance draws Rong Yin's horrifying wrath, Pei San must navigate his terrifying honeymoon. Alternating between Pei San's cheeky survival tactics and Rong Yin's alien, predatory devotion, the question remains: can he survive his own marriage, or will his monstrous bride consume the whole town?
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RSVP to the Calamity Bride
By @john1208
Fang Ziyan is an elite crisis-management wedding coordinator, famous for placating furious bridezillas and salvaging disastrous ceremonies for the ultra-rich. But his skills are violently tested when he is swallowed by the Yama-Draft Protocol and dropped into the Weeping-Brocade Compound. His role? The doomed groom in a Calamity-class ghost wedding. The instance rules are absolute: drink the grave-dirt tea, never bleed on the Papier-mâché Eunuchs, and do not look the bride in her hollow eyes. Breaking a rule means soul-shredding elimination. But Ziyan doesn't panic. To him, the horrific taboos are just a stressed bride's aesthetic preferences. Instead of cowering, he turns the terrifying tea ceremony into an intimate exchange of vows, and transforms the deadly veil-lifting trial into a masterclass of flirtatious devotion. As the other players are violently purged by the mansion's monstrous in-laws, Ziyan completes the impossible tasks by validating centuries of the bride's loneliness with gentle touches and whispered promises. Soon, the terrifying Luo Qinghe is violently dismantling her own cursed family to protect her perfect groom. But when the wedding concludes, will the Protocol let him leave, or is the supernatural marriage contract eternally binding?
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