Blackwood Docent

Unlock the door to a prison where the real horror isn’t the ghosts—it’s what’s feeding on them.

For years, Edward Winthrop has been the docent of Blackwood Penitentiary, guiding tourists through its grim history with carefully crafted tales of suffering and sorrow. To him, the ghosts are nothing more than silent, looping echoes—set dressing for his nightly performances. Until one night, the whispering inmate in Cell 7 stops shivering… and looks directly at him.

Soon, the rules that have kept Edward safe begin to unravel. The ghosts start leaving objects in the real world. They break their loops. They communicate. They watch him. Driven by a dread he can no longer ignore, Edward follows a trail of forgotten tokens and spectral clues down into the prison’s buried heart—where he discovers that Blackwood was never just a prison. It was a lid on a hellish engine, fueled by human agony for generations.

Now, the engine is waking up, and the ghosts aren’t trying to escape. They’re begging for the one thing the prison was designed to destroy: an end.

The Docent of Blackwood is a chilling, atmospheric descent into supernatural horror and profound grief—a story about the stories we tell to survive, and the terrible truth that waits behind the curtain. Perfect for fans of The Haunting of Hill House, House of Leaves, and slow-burn psychological terror.