The Blackwood Sanctorium

In a place where monsters are kept under lock and key, the most terrifying thing isn't getting out...

By: K.R.M. Morgan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Blackwood Sanctorium is a fortress of modern medicine, a high-security hospital for the most dangerous psychiatric patients in the country. It is a place of absolute control. But when a charismatic cult leader is found dead in a room locked and bolted from the inside, that illusion is shattered.

With no weapon, no witnesses, and no way in or out, the staff call it a freak accident. The police call it impossible.

They call in Professor John Castellanos, an academic expert on the criminal mind who sees patterns where others see chaos. He understands that this isn't a random death, but the first note in a terrifying symphony. When a second patient is killed in the exact same impossible manner, Castellanos knows he is facing a new kind of predator: a ghost in the system, a killer who can walk through walls and deliver death without a trace.

The only link between the victims is a dark secret buried in the hospital's past: a defunct, radical therapy program designed to cure monsters by forcing them to feel their victims' pain. A program that created something unforeseen. A patient who believes he isn't a killer, but a healer. And his cure is death.

With the authorities blind to the truth and the hospital’s director guarding a terrible secret, Castellanos is in a race against a flawless killer who is always one step ahead. He must unravel the asylum's secrets and expose a chilling conspiracy before the ghost's twisted therapy reaches its final, horrifying conclusion.

For fans of Shutter Island and The Silent Patient, The Blackwood Sanctorium is a gripping, mind-bending thriller that will make you question everything you think you know about justice, madness, and the price of a cure.