First published 2017
Rhee hitchhikes on midnight highways as Resurrection Mary, then returns each night to a crumbling mansion where four other Marys live trapped in their own horror stories. Bloody Mary appears when summoned in an antique mirror. Mistress Mary tends poisonous flowers in the garden. Mary Mack builds coffins in the basement. Mari Lwyd broods with her horse skull. Every evening they gather to share the nightmares they've inflicted on others, but they remember nothing of who they were before becoming legends. When rage drives Rhee to leap from the highway into Bloody Mary's mirror, the Marys discover they can move between each other's worlds. Together they grow stronger and glimpse freedom. But something in the shadows fights back, unwilling to release them. As her sisters risk slipping into permanent darkness, Rhee must solve the mystery of their forgotten past before the force that created them claims her too.
Genres: literary-fiction, horror, paranormal, dark-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Crumbling Mansion
Period: Midnight
94 pages · Paperback · Broken Eye Books
Content warnings: body-horror, gore, violence