An epistolary horror series

Letters from Nightshade

History keeps its darkest secrets in the things people leave behind.

Recovered letters, maps, and artifacts — assembled by a man who followed them too far, and addressed only to those willing to look.

Case File No. 01 — Vosges Sector

The Vosges
Mountains Incident

In the autumn of 1944, a U.S. reconnaissance unit walked into the fog of France’s Vosges Mountains and did not walk out. Officially, nothing unusual occurred. But a field manual — buried for decades in a dead man’s garage — tells a different story, covered in warnings found in no Army protocol.

Elias Nightshade followed that trail into the trees. What he found there was not an echo of the war. It was something older. Something that had been waiting.

A soldier moving through fog-choked streets near Épinal, 1944
The Vosges Mountains Incident — Letters from Nightshade, Volume I

The Debut Dispatch

Told as a letter — addressed to you

This chilling debut blends historical fiction, cosmic horror, and investigative folklore into a single, unforgettable experience. What begins as a study of found documents spirals into something far more dangerous: a lingering corruption in the landscape, and a whistling presence that waits in the fog.

Meticulously crafted and eerily authentic, it is built to be read carefully — because once the letter is unsealed, you’re no longer alone.

Exhibits — recovered & catalogued

What was left behind

Each volume arrives layered with the things Elias recovered: documents, photographs, and notes scrawled by hands that knew they were running out of time.

Recovered spread: a Vosges ridge map, photographs, a sooted handprint, and a note reading IT'S IN THE TREES
Exhibit A Field spread, sector map & photographs. Note recovered handprint, lower left.
Handwritten letter pages with annotations and pinned photographs
Exhibit B Correspondence. Part field report, part confession.
Soldiers facing standing figures around a fire in the forest
Exhibit C Source unverified. Figures at the treeline, by firelight.

Marginalia — 1943 field manual

Warnings found in no Army protocol

Scored into the pages in cramped pencil, beneath a heading that read “They saw it too.”

Page 9 — margin

“Don’t follow the whistling, even if it sounds like the Captain.”

Page 9 — margin

“Eyes in the fog, but no head count lost.”

Terrain chart

“Check compass twice. North slips near the tree line.”

Standing order

“Never engage if it doesn’t cast a shadow.”

Recovered footage

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Foggy Vosges ridgeline
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Reader transmissions

What readers are saying

Haunting and immersive. It’s like holding secrets in my hands.

Blurs the line between artifact and fiction. Couldn’t put it down.

Atmospheric and chilling. A wholly unique horror experience.

Do not read alone

You’ve been chosen for a reason.

Now it’s up to you to follow what’s been left behind.

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