DARLINGS! Just noticed the double-volume revised edition of STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL via @torbooks is on super-eBook-sale right now. 684 pages! For only $3.99! Via Kindle, Kobo & Apple Books! Includes THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER and THE DARKLY LUMINOUS FIGHT FOR PERSEPHONE PARKER + extra scenes & content.
This book of my heart is: GOTHIC. It's Jane-Eyre-Meets-Dark-Academia+Hot-For-Teacher+GHOSTS+Greek-Mythology+Jack-the-Ripper+Found-Family
YES, there is a paperback omnibus edition, available via Bookshop.org (my favorite link to send folks to, it supports local bookstores!), B&N and any physical store can order it in. It's on sale too!
‘I wasn’t allowed to watch scary things, so I told one of the stories my childhood best friend and neighbor told me. The one about the girl in the mirror.
But the thing is, when he would tell me these stories, I would cover my ears and squeal and giggle and miss half the tale, so I wasn’t sure on the specifics of WHY there was a girl in the mirror. I just knew there was one. And supposedly, you could evoke her to appear, covered in blood, by saying her name three times in the mirror in the dark.
You know this story. Everyone has some version of this story.
So I told it.’
(Tw cartoon blood warning below the jump)
(Mary is from my horror fiction podcast, Mil-Liminal, episode 4, found wherever you listen)
Fic idea where Will figures out Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper during one of their sessions, and immediately says "you're the Chesapeake Ripper!" to Hannibal, who freaks out and chokes Will to death. He immediately feels guilty about doing so because at that point he was already starting to fall for Will. Fastforward to the next week during Will's usual appointment time, and Hannibal is wallowing in his office and has a little too much to drink, sitting in the chair across from the one Will usually sat in. He's full blown drunk and looks up, only to see Will in the chair across from him. Will exclaims "You're the Chesapeake Ripper!" Then his eyes widen with fear and he starts choking, fighting with arms and hands that aren't there. As soon as Will "dies" he disappears. Hannibal is freaked out and goes home, thinking it was a hallucination caused by his drinking and guilty conscious. The next week it happens again. And the week after that. Hannibal tries to go home to avoid the specter of Will, but the ghost appears in his dining room across from him and acts out the whole ordeal before disappearing. Hannibal tries different rooms in his house, but Will always shows up. Hannibal tries a hotel, and the specter of Will is so loud that the neighboring room calls a manager to check on Hannibal. He's being haunted and he has no idea how to rid himself of the ghost. Call an exorcist that might figure out his secret? Confess to his crimes and hope the ghost goes away? Join Will in death?
Meanwhile, Will is not a specter, he's just a pissed off ghost who wants to make Hannibal miserable for killing him. After his weekly torment of Hannibal, he goes invisible and messes with all of Hannibal's things to slowly push him to insanity.