Dark Echo: A Gothic Mirror Horror Novella. Book 2 of The 3:33 Nightmare Cycle: A Dark Psychological Horror Story of Haunted Reflections, Identity, and Supernatural Dread.
Some reflections do not show what you are. They show what is waiting to replace you.
Three weeks after surviving the frozen nightmare of White Death, Emily Holloway is still trying to pretend she is fine. She goes back to work. She hides the mark on her ankle. She touches the empty place at her throat where her grandfather's pendant used to be.
But sleep has become dangerous.
Desperate for rest, Emily turns to prescribed sleeping pills, hoping for one night without snow, drowning, or the faceless thing that watched her from the white distance. Then a strange parcel arrives at her flat: a tall black mirror wrapped in rain-soaked cloth, accompanied by a message she cannot ignore.
What was taken shall now be reflected.
At 3:33, the nightmare returns.
Only this time, Emily does not wake in a frozen wasteland. She wakes inside her own flat. No doors lead outside. No windows open onto the world. And the mirror in the hallway is no longer reflecting properly.
As the glass begins to learn her face, her memories, her grief, and her voice, Emily must confront a horror more intimate than death: the possibility that something else can wear her life better than she ever could.
Dark Echo is the second book in The 3:33 Nightmare Cycle, a first-person Gothic horror novella of haunted mirrors, psychological dread, supernatural nightmare terror, identity erosion, and dark reflection horror.
For readers who enjoy atmospheric horror, doppelgänger horror, occult nightmares, disturbing psychological fiction, sinister reflections, sleep-based horror, and Gothic stories where the self is not as secure as it seems.
The nightmare no longer wants to chase Emily.
It wants to become her.
