Book One of The Maplewood Horrors — a chilling saga of witchcraft, legacy, and the shadows that never die.

The Darkness of Thorne House

A house that breathes. A town built on secrets. A curse that never died.

Maplewood has always whispered.

In 1990, Joseph Thinkle was the first to hear it. He was a lonely old man who vanished into the woods, possessed by something ancient and wrong. By morning, the town had turned on its witches. Blood soaked the snow. And a forbidden ritual bound a living grimoire beneath Thorne House—a place with too many windows and a hunger for grief.

Thirty years later, it's waking up again.

Emily Rickman returns to Maplewood with no memory of her childhood, no clue of the power she once buried. Her teenage twins, Nicholas and Jenny, are changing—haunted by voices, drawn to the house, caught in the early throes of the first step in their frightening and mystifying evolution. Ascension.

The past isn't finished. And Thorne House is hungry.

As the veil between timelines collapses, a curse forged in fear and flame returns to finish what it started. Children vanish. Old magic stirs. And the blood-soaked truth of what happened in 1990 threatens to destroy a new generation.

For readers of Paul Tremblay, Clive Barker, and The Haunting of Hill House, The Darkness of Thorne House is a brutal yet lyrical horror novel about inherited trauma, possessed memory, and the price of burying witches rather than listening to them.

You can kill the witches.
You can burn the books.
But you can't silence the house.