The Journal of Sorrow
A patient arrives. A journal appears. A case file closes.
Jacob Eldrin arrives at Holy Meadows Psychiatric Institute with a single complaint: a journal he cannot destroy. Dr. Travis Winston is assigned his case. This is that file. Session notes, clinical addenda, audio logs, and a final notation recovered from the closed case folder. Every event presented in the language of institutional fact. What Jacob describes could be psychotic decompensation. It could be something else. What Dr. Winston experiences treating him is not on the record. The record does not resolve. Will you?
A novel for readers of Paul Tremblay, Carmen Maria Machado, and Mark Z. Danielewski. Literary horror built on the horror of documentation, of what gets recorded and what gets left out, and of who is holding the pen at the end.
Content note: Contains themes of institutional confinement, dissociation, psychosis, mental illness, and patient suicide.
Chasing Hell: A Descent Through the Mythological Underworlds
Taylor didn't plan to die today.
She had coffee going cold in her hand, a brother she was still trying to save, and a fight that hadn't finished yet. Then the shooting happened, and none of that mattered anymore.
Except it does. Because she can hear Dillon somewhere in the walls of the afterlife, and she has a door in front of her—warm marble handle, paradise on the other side—and she is letting go of it to find him.
Chasing Hell follows Taylor across six mythological underworlds as she fights, bleeds, bargains, and keeps moving toward her brother. Hell will burn her. Helheim will freeze what's left. Hunted by a Mesoamerican death god. A Roman arena will teach her that surrender is no option. Scorching copper floors and sands that show sights of temptation.
Every domain has their rules. Every rule a cost.
Dark, relentless, and brutally human, Chasing Hell is a descent story about what we owe the people we refuse to give up on—and what it costs when we mean it.