Stories That Stay With You

When Thomas Whitmore loses the woman he loves, he refuses to let death have the final word.

A book titled 'Cold Clay Lips' by Eric Horne on a dark wooden surface, with a gothic-style house and graveyard depicted on the cover under a full moon and cloudy sky.

Meet the Author

Every story begins with a question.

Some ask what waits beyond death.

Others ask what we’re willing to become to survive.

Those are the stories I write.

After twenty years in the U.S. Army, I learned that fear rarely announces itself. It lingers in quiet rooms, hides inside ordinary people, and waits in the silence between choices. Those experiences didn’t teach me how to write horror—they taught me how to recognize it.

My novels live where the supernatural collides with the deeply human. Ancient curses. Haunted towns. Impossible choices. Characters who carry scars that no one else can see. The monsters in my stories are rarely the most dangerous things on the page.

Whether you’re wandering the forgotten streets of Ravenswood, descending into a crypt with Thomas Whitmore, or counting down the final hours of Raymond English, my goal is always the same:

To make you forget you’re reading.

I want you to hear the footsteps in the hallway. To hesitate before turning the next page. To carry the weight of a character’s choices long after you’ve closed the book.

Because the stories that stay with us aren’t the ones that scream the loudest.

They’re the ones that whisper.

So come in.

The door was never locked.

Silhouette of a man with glasses, sitting in a dimly lit room with a candle and a candlestick in the background.
Black and white portrait of a man with short hair, wearing a white shirt, possibily sitting near a window with curtains, looking thoughtful with his hand near his face.