THE EMPTY GLASS The Black Lantern Mysteries by Bailey Strange

Name: THE EMPTY GLASS The Black Lantern Mysteries
Author: Bailey Strange

Easter hunt

It was only supposed to be a normal easter egg hunt but really it was a test to see who lives or dies. A detective who was sent by a nearby town went to investigate the missing children in the town of Achel. Achel is a town with nothing but serial killers. Their favorite time of the year is Easter.

The House At 3:17 Book Two: The Girl In The Window

Emma thought the nightmare at the house at 3:17 was over. She was wrong. When a mysterious girl begins appearing outside her bedroom window, Emma and Maya uncover a terrifying truth: some nightmares don’t stay behind. As the clock strikes three and the shadows grow closer, Emma realizes the girl isn’t trying to get in. She’s already inside. 👁️

The Perfect lie

Investigative journalist Elena Hart receives an anonymous envelope with a chilling message: "The lie begins with your name." As she follows a trail of hidden secrets, mysterious deaths, and shocking betrayals, everyone becomes a suspect. With a determined private investigator by her side, Elena is must uncover the truth before the mastermind behind the lies silences her forever.

The Silhouette of Blood

A family. A forgotten mistake. Something that should never have been awakened. As generations, timelines, and realities collide, the Rashid family is dragged into a mystery where death may be the least frightening thing waiting for them.

The House At 3:17

The house has been abandoned for twenty years. A girl named Evelyn Mercer disappeared without a trace. At exactly 3:17 a.m., a light appears in one of the mansion’s upstairs windows. So who—or what—is watching from the window? And why did she choose tonight to reveal herself?

The Hidden Past

Two sisters were murdered. Their spirits never left. Now, months later, Thalia steps into the same forest… and something starts to follow her. Visions. Whispers. Shadows calling her name. The truth behind their deaths was buried long ago— but the Hidden Past always finds its way back.

Ẹmí Àjẹ́

Anyone who spills a woman's blood, steals her body, or protects the one who did, belongs to me." Don't let Ẹmí Àjé hear your cries. She has slept beneath this land since before it had a name. Now she is awake, and done watching. Every silenced girl, every blamed wife, every forgotten daughter, until the old laws crumbled and listening became unbearable. Some debts are owed for generations. She has come to collect. Complete story📚

His Favorite Scandal

Mara Candal wakes up with her own funeral clip on her phone and three months to stop the men who made her look unstable before they killed her. Her fiancé wants her quiet. Her editor wants her contained. Julian Cross wants her dangerous. He helped ruin her once. Now Mara will use his secrets, his guilt, and his obsession to make powerful men confess, on camera and on their knees.

Vaporize The Memory

We had always loved the occult, we basked in our morbid humor, and even daydreamed of one day haunting some poor unfortunate soul in our after-lives. Then you died and left me to pick up the pieces, but our coward of a friend won't even let me give him his first tattoo or watch scary movies with me. So that left me with no other option, I had to contact you...

The Retail blood sucker

At Blackthorn Department Store, Victor Draven is more than a cruel manager—he is a centuries-old vampire who feeds on fear, exhaustion, and obedience. When Mira’s five-day absence disrupts his Blood Moon ritual, she becomes the key to exposing his dark secret. As missing employees return drained and the store’s hidden basement reveals its horrors, Mira and her colleagues must unite to destroy the monster ruling their workplace.

THE HOLLOW CROWN

London is drowning in fog, and someone is leaving the dead on thrones. Each body is stripped of its face, wearing a porcelain mask with a painted smile and a wire crown. Investigator Edmund Whitmore takes the case with his sister Violet, who harbors a six-year secret. But this isn't simple murder—it’s a message. Someone is exposing secrets London preferred to forget, with a twisted idea of justice and a mask for every lie.

ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏsᴛ ʙᴏʏs ᴏғ ᴅɪʀᴇʜᴀᴠᴇɴ

A ‘choose your own path’ mystery with CHOICES, CLUES, VISUALS & SOUND. Solve for Cold Case 174: a paranormal horror surrounding 7 boys who were gone for months in the [REDACTED] Conservation Site and came back forever changed after interacting with [REDACTED]. (CURRENTLY ADDING MORE CHOICE CHAPTERS BETWEEN CLUES!)

The Other Petra

Petra Brooke died at thirty-four with a bullet in her chest and a secret she never got to uncover. Then she wakes up eighteen again, three days into her senior year. This time, she'll protect her mother, uncover the conspiracy surrounding her family, and find the person who killed her. There's just one problem: she is falling for the man she married in her first life, and she still doesn't know if he was involved in her murder.

Hell is Arcane

"Do not be deceived!! There is no glory in this path you choose. No songs will be sung for you, no ballads or laurels with your name. But remember this." “When the demons charge at you. When you walk through the valley of death. When the devil stands guard against you.” “Remember you do not fight for yourself alone! You fight for all of us! You fight for the Citadel!” A thousand men struck their chest in unison as their voice shook the halls. “We die for the citadel!!”

Black lace & Pink venom

In the rain-soaked city of Rosen Hollow, Lovely Hart never believed the rumors about the mysterious disappearances—until she met Vesper Vale. Cold, beautiful, and dangerously secretive, Vesper awakens an irresistible connection that blurs the line between hatred and desire. But Vesper is hiding a centuries-old truth: she is a monster. And some love stories don’t just break hearts… they devour souls.

The Echoes of Ward 9

Title: The Echoes of Ward 9 Genre: Supernatural Horror / Found Footage Thriller Logline: When a rogue audio engineer breaks into an abandoned, quarantined hospital wing to capture ghost frequencies, he discovers that the rooms record more than just sound—they capture and trap the souls of anyone who liste

Shadows Within Earth: Volume One

When Dracula returns from the dead, a clandestine organization sends their best Agents to stop the Dark Lord from destroying humanity during the closing hours of World War Two.

The Unsung

In a dying world where power is a shard of a broken song and the unbound are fed to the Rifts as living bait, the one man whose soul can hold no power at all binds the silence that ancient lifeforms were mutilated to seal, and learns he can take the dead's power for his own.

The Sleepover (shortplay)

Sleepovers are meant to be fun-a mix of giggles and late-night treats. Someone in the group is not who they claim to be. Dive into this short play in which one of the characters is not who they appear to be.

T.E.A

After returning home for a family funeral, Romilly receives a mysterious message from a six-year-dead group chat—and realizes Silas’s death may be hiding a secret her family desperately wants buried.

Death Slave

“Forever a slave to my own death.” Betrayed and killed by her own father, Zamora awakens in Purgatory as an Anomaly—a primordial being gifted with supernatural powers. Trapped inside a glitched, video game-like world, she must battle monsters, climb deadly levels, and survive a System that says she shouldn’t exist. Worse, the divine power keeping her alive comes with one small, potentially fatal side effect…

Don't Answer The Phone

A new house. A quiet start. A phone that shouldn’t work. Hayley answers. No one else hears. Shadows follow. Her brother disappears. The house is hiding a decades-old obsession, grief, and a voice that crossed over. One person survived it before. Barely. To get her brother back, Hayley has to pick up again.

26:22

The following case files contain reports of unexplained incidents across Japan. No one knows who started collecting these stories. Some were found on forgotten forums. Some were copied from police reports that no longer exist. Others were written by people who disappeared before they could explain what happened. Each file ends with a choice. The choice is yours. Choose carefully. Updated whenever the spookiness hits me Why 26:22? It’s a time in Japan. (02:22am)

When the darkness knew her name

Sheen thought her greatest battle was escaping the life she was born into. During lockdown, she found faith, began wearing hijab, and discovered a connection with Allah that changed her forever. But years later, strange things begin happening. Someone—or something—knows her deepest secrets, remembers the duas she whispered in solitude, and has been watching her for years. She thought she had finally found peace. She was terribly wrong.

THE BEAUTIFUL MISTAkE

Riddhima Sareen, a young budding psychiatrist, who loves to lessen her patients' pain. But the irony being that she herself doesn't have anyone whom she can share her pain with..... However a strange encounter with a handsome but mysterious man stirs new hope in her heart. In him she finds her saviour, her guardian angel and a perfect answer to her emptiness. But sometimes, even psychiatrists can have bad judgements....

Silence in the West District

Penny Glass notices everything and forgets nothing — Web City’s unseen protector, “the Ghost,” working outside the law for three years. If you love Lord of Mysteries’ blend of detective work and creeping menace but want it to actually move, this delivers that DNA at real pace. When children vanish from the West District, she follows a trail straight into a network deeper than one corrupt cop — and the case may cost her more than she can afford to lose.

The girl who could steal dreams

A fantasy, dark romance and suspensed story of a beautiful lady

Ruthless Desires [SMUT 25+]

"Why the fuck would he cheat on me with a stripper?" Rose only wanted to survive. Working nights at a strip club was never part of her dream; it was her only choice. Then Lewis walked into her life. A wealthy man with dangerous secrets and a wild obsession. Falling for him could cost Rose everything, especially now that his ruthless wife has vowed to make her life a living hell for sleeping with her husband. ⚠️ Adult/explicit content begins from Chapter 25 onward. Reader discretion advised.

GREY EYES, SHARP KNIVES

She believed she had buried her monster. Nia Bennett came to Moscow to study art and start over. Then Andrew Volkov decided her indifference was the one thing he couldn't survive. She escaped him with a blade and left him for dead. Four months later, he returns smiling. Some monsters never die, they simply come back for what they believe is theirs.

THE EMPTY GLASS The Black Lantern Mysteries

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