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The Calling: Hidden Souls
A supernatural gothic horror
Knock, and the door will open.
It's 1960s Ireland and Kathleen Murphy longs to fit in, to be like everybody else. To be rid of the nightmares, the vision, and of her. The one who stalks her, unrelenting.
The Blood Nun.
Just when she thinks she's gone mad, the vision of a nun crying tears of blood leads Kathleen to her new life at The Sisters of Divine Grace and Retribution convent as Sister Katherine, a novitiate nun.
The nun disappears and her nights no longer plagued by nightmares, she things her past is well behind her.
From the moment she arrives, something feels wrong.
Phantom smells of bleach and damp soil, a mouldering teddy bear that just won't leave her alone, and secretive Sisters who refuse to let her clean up the back garden even in her own free time.
With the return of the Blood Nun and visions worse than ever, Sister Katherine is led on a merry chase of discovery.
Has God, in His all-knowing wisdom, called her to the one place she could truly belong? Or has her mind snapped, sending her into the downward spiral of madness?
Seek, and you shall find.
Updates:
- Longlisted for the ProwritingAid 'Novel Beginnings' competition
SNEAK PEEK!
The Calling: Hidden Souls was originally a short story, but I enjoyed writing it so much, I decided to develop it into the novel outlined above.
I often make dolls of the main characters, and recently started sharing snippets of my writing, since I'm a bit on the slow side - so, if you'd like to her the original short story as an audiobook, you can either watch the full doll repaint video at kreepy Kitty Creations, or access the audiobook only at E. L. Julian - Horror Writing Introvert for free, for those of you not into craft videos.
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