BLACKSTONE ASYLUM
After the loss of her fiancé, Alex, psychiatrist Dr. Maya Taylor flees her old life for a temporary position at the reopened Blackstone Asylum—a crumbling institution where reality itself seems to bend. Blackstone’s corridors are alive with secrets: patients speak in riddles, staff walk shadows, and Maya’s grief finds uncanny echoes in the building’s hungry silence. Her patients include Sarah, haunted by visions of a mournful woman in white; John, tangled in paranoia; and Elijah, a soft-spoken young man whose abilities blur the line between madness and medium.
As Maya's memories surface, she realizes Blackstone is not only haunted—it is sentient, feeding off the pain and secrets of those within. Disturbing phenomena escalate: voices whisper in the walls, rooms shift and breathe, and Maya’s own past—her missing brother, Alex’s murder—entangles with the institution’s sinister history. When a lockdown traps the staff and patients inside, Maya must face the truth: some darkness cannot be escaped, and some houses do not stay shut, even when the doors are locked.
Blackstone Asylum becomes a mirror, forcing Maya to confront the shadows she’s carried since childhood. The line between sanity and surrender blurs as the true horror reveals itself: the darkness isn’t just in the asylum—it’s inside Maya, waiting for its homecoming.
Atmospheric, psychological, and unsettling, this novel brings urban supernatural horror into the heart of a crumbling city and the fractured mind of a grieving doctor. In Blackstone, trauma is currency, grief is nourishment, and not all who leave are ever truly free.