Historian Benjamin Thorne, long committed to rationalizing the past and dismissing his own glimpses of the future as stress-induced delusions, is drawn to Aethelburg—a forgotten city steeped in rumours of temporal anomalies and cloaked in a sentient fog that distorts time and perception. Nestled within ancient cliffs, the city breathes a dense mist that clings to its archaic architecture and seems to whisper prophecies through its winding streets, where shadows anticipate rather than follow. As Benjamin immerses himself in this eerie place, his scepticism begins to unravel; the fog infiltrates his mind, transforming fleeting visions into vivid, horrifying certainties. The city appears to orchestrate his descent, its stones echoing future screams and its streets staging the very atrocities he once denied, trapping him in a loop where disbelief becomes the catalyst for doom.

The Cartographer’s Despair is a haunting, introspective narrative that follows a mapmaker unravelling both the mysteries of a shifting landscape and the emotional weight of personal loss. As the terrain he once knew begins to defy logic—rivers rerouting, towns vanishing, borders bleeding into one another—he confronts the futility of trying to impose order on a world that resists definition. The story blends surreal geography with psychological depth, exploring themes of grief, memory, and the collapse of certainty. Ultimately, it’s a meditation on the limits of control and the quiet terror of watching familiar truths dissolve.

In The Memory Garden, botanist Elara, grieving the loss of her partner Leo, enters the enigmatic Forbidden Conservatory in search of solace and scientific discovery. What begins as a study of rare flora quickly spirals into a haunting confrontation with a sentient ecosystem—the Memoria Arboris— which feeds on emotion and memory. As Elara uncovers the tragic fates of past visitors, including the doomed lovers Seraphina and Dr. Alistair Finch, she realizes the garden mirrors and manipulates her grief, threatening to consume her identity. Through resilience and love, she disrupts the garden’s parasitic cycle, reclaiming her sense of self and transforming sorrow into strength. The story is a lush, atmospheric meditation on memory, loss, and the perilous beauty of emotional entanglement.

The Geometry of Grief follows Elijah Thorne, an architectural historian consumed by sorrow after losing his wife and daughter. Set in the perpetually twilight-bound city of Harrow Creek, Elijah begins to notice unsettling geometric patterns in the decaying urban landscape—patterns that seem to react to his grief. As he uncovers his grandfather’s secret legacy—a citywide arcane prison built to contain a primordial entity known as The Unnamed—Elijah realizes his emotional unravelling is weakening the ancient wards. Through a descent into madness, memory, and supernatural horror, Elijah must transmute his grief into a force of defiance, using love and acceptance as a counter-resonance to rebind the entity and save the city from collapse.

Dr. Aris Thorne, a pragmatic psychotherapist, moves into a secluded Victorian house filled with antique mirrors. Her newest patient, Silas Croft, claims his reflection is alive—an entity he calls “Silas-Prime” that watches, judges, and seeks to replace him. Initially diagnosing him with dissociative identity disorder, Aris begins to experience similar phenomena: delayed mirror movements, unsettling expressions, and a growing sense that her own reflection harbors a darker, freer version of herself.

In this haunting tale, sound engineer Myra retreats to the fog-shrouded coastal town of Oakhaven, seeking solace after the loss of her daughter Lily. Drawn by rumours of an eerie nightly chorus emanating from the sea, Myra sets out to capture and analyse the mysterious sounds. As she delves deeper into the spectral harmonies, she uncovers hidden voices—one of which chillingly calls her name. Her obsession intensifies when she begins to hear Lily’s voice within the fog’s song, leading her on a perilous journey into the mist. The story crescendos in a devastating and beautiful climax, as Myra steps into the sea, consumed by grief and longing, becoming part of the choir herself.

Clara, a reclusive artist haunted by trauma, retreats to the decaying Blackwood Manor on a desolate coast, seeking solitude and escape. But the house begins to "paint" vivid murals overnight—eerily beautiful at first, then increasingly disturbing. Each painting reflects fragments of Clara’s buried memories, culminating in a horrifying revelation: the house is not just echoing her past, but warning her of an imminent threat. As the final mural depicts her exact present moment, Clara realizes the man from her nightmares is returning—and she must confront him, armed only with her art and her will to survive.

A struggling family moves into a dilapidated, remote ancestral home, only to discover it's not merely haunted, but actively alive – not with ghosts, but with an ancient, sentient fungal organism that slowly consumes, transforms, and mentally breaks down everything within its grasp, turning the house and its inhabitants into part of itself.

A disgraced audio archivist, hired to restore the final recordings from a remote, abandoned research outpost, discovers that a predatory acoustic phenomenon has been hunting the crew, and now, by listening, he has invited it into his own home.

In the remote Tasmanian highlands, a derelict Victorian manor known as Wraithmoor House is being restored by a team of paranormal researchers for a documentary series. But the house doesn’t just echo with the past—it mimics the thoughts and fears of those who enter. As the team begins to unravel the manor’s history, they discover that the house is not haunted by spirits, but by sentient memories that feed on emotional trauma. The deeper they dig, the more the house reshapes itself to reflect their darkest secrets.

A desperate botanist makes a horrifying pact with an ancient, sentient garden to cure her brother's fatal bone disease, only to discover that the garden's price is not a one-time payment, but a slow, agonizing harvest of her own life force.

A once-grand clock factory on the outskirts of a dying industrial town holds more than rusted gears. When a young memory researcher arrives to salvage its intricate timepieces, she uncovers a malignant sentience woven into the factory’s mechanisms. Every tick revives the suppressed memories of those who vanished here decades ago—and each chime reshapes reality, blurring the line between past and present.