When family secrets become family curses, the past never stays buried.
Sarah Charles thought inheriting her grandmother's Victorian house was the worst thing about Eleanor's funeral. She was wrong.
Hidden in the walls of 47 Elm Street are journals spanning over a century. Meticulous records of ritual sacrifice, supernatural bargains, and the terrible price her family has paid to keep an ancient entity satisfied. For generations, the Charles and Thorne bloodlines have fed the hungry shadow that haunts their inheritance, trading innocent lives for family protection.
Now the obligation falls to Sarah.
The entity doesn't just want blood. It feeds on family shame, thrives on the secrets that isolate relatives from each other, and grows stronger with each generation's inherited trauma.
In this psychological horror that blurs the line between supernatural threat and inherited mental illness, Sarah must confront a terrifying question: Are the shadows real, or has her family simply passed down madness disguised as ancient obligation?
Either way, the cost of the truth may be more than she can bear.
A chilling exploration of how trauma echoes through generations, and how sometimes the most terrifying monsters are the ones that live inside family trees.
Genre: Horror
Sarah Charles thought inheriting her grandmother's Victorian house was the worst thing about Eleanor's funeral. She was wrong.
Hidden in the walls of 47 Elm Street are journals spanning over a century. Meticulous records of ritual sacrifice, supernatural bargains, and the terrible price her family has paid to keep an ancient entity satisfied. For generations, the Charles and Thorne bloodlines have fed the hungry shadow that haunts their inheritance, trading innocent lives for family protection.
Now the obligation falls to Sarah.
The entity doesn't just want blood. It feeds on family shame, thrives on the secrets that isolate relatives from each other, and grows stronger with each generation's inherited trauma.
In this psychological horror that blurs the line between supernatural threat and inherited mental illness, Sarah must confront a terrifying question: Are the shadows real, or has her family simply passed down madness disguised as ancient obligation?
Either way, the cost of the truth may be more than she can bear.
A chilling exploration of how trauma echoes through generations, and how sometimes the most terrifying monsters are the ones that live inside family trees.
Genre: Horror
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