Ashes of the Blackspire

When funeral director Abe Morrison returns to his cursed hometown of Blackspire for his mother's burial, he discovers that death is only the beginning. The ancient tower that gave the town its name has begun to pulse with malevolent energy, and the silence that follows isn't peace—it's the held breath before a scream. As graves empty themselves and the boundary between the living and the damned dissolves, Abe must confront a family legacy written in blood and shadow. In Blackspire, the dead don't rest—they hunger. And they've been waiting for him to come home.

Hidden in the basement of the Whitmore University library, Professor Elena Vasquez discovers a manuscript that shouldn't exist—bound in leather that feels disturbingly warm to the touch, written in ink that seems to move across blood-red pages. The Crimson Codex contains rituals from before recorded history, spells that promise power beyond imagination. But every incantation demands a price, and Elena soon learns that some knowledge comes with a hunger of its own. As her colleagues begin disappearing and nightmarish entities creep through the shadows of her once-safe academic world, Elena realizes she's not just reading the Codex—it's reading her. And it likes what it sees.

Dr. Sarah Chen thought Ravenshollow Asylum was just another consulting job—evaluate the remaining patients before the state closes the crumbling facility forever. But the moment she steps through those iron gates, she realizes some institutions never truly shut down. The whispers start immediately: soft, pleading voices that seem to seep from the walls themselves. Patient files describe horrors that couldn't possibly be real, yet Sarah begins experiencing them firsthand. As the line between doctor and patient blurs, she discovers that Ravenshollow doesn't just house the insane—it creates them. And now, with the asylum's dark history wrapping around her mind like chains, Sarah must escape before she becomes just another whisper in the walls.

In the fog‑shrouded Victorian town of Millbrook, groundskeeper Thomas Blackwood has tended Greenvale Cemetery for twenty years without incident. Then the digging begins. Not grave robbers—something far worse. Each morning, Thomas finds fresh holes where bodies once lay, the coffins empty, the earth scattered as if clawed from within. When the local mortician starts delivering corpses that smile, and flowers in the cemetery begin growing in impossible colors, Thomas realizes that Greenvale isn't just a resting place—it's a garden. And something ancient and hungry has been cultivating a very special harvest. As the dead walk and the living disappear, Thomas must uncover the terrible secret buried beneath Millbrook before the bone garden claims its final crop: the entire town.

Five college friends reunite for Halloween weekend at the abandoned Thornfield Estate, armed with an antique Ouija board and enough wine to make contacting the dead seem like harmless fun. But when the planchette begins moving on its own, spelling out messages that know their deepest secrets, the game turns deadly serious. The spirits that answer aren't the gentle ghosts of Victorian parlor tricks—they're something far older and infinitely more malicious. As the friends realize they've opened a door that was meant to stay sealed, the house itself begins to change around them, trapping them with entities that have been waiting decades for fresh vessels. Now, with dawn still hours away and their sanity unraveling, they must find a way to close the circle before they become permanent residents of Thornfield's supernatural prison.

At the stroke of midnight, where Highway 49 meets the old Perdition Road, desperate souls have been making bargains for over a century. Jazz musician Marcus Williams arrives at the crossroads with nothing left to lose—his talent is gone, his woman has left, and his life is spiraling into darkness. But when the Devil's representative appears, offering everything Marcus ever wanted, the price is more than his soul. The entity wants his memories, his pain, his very humanity. As Marcus discovers he's not the first to make this bargain—and learns the horrifying truth about what happens to those who default on their deals—he realizes that some debts follow you beyond death. With supernatural forces closing in and time running out, Marcus must find a way to outsmart the Devil himself, or become another cautionary tale whispered at the crossroads.