THE STORIES WE TELL

Iris, able to see glimpses of the future, discovers an abandoned child and believes it’s the baby she was forced to surrender in a story of accepting fate versus challenging it. But first, she must face the fact that the truth is the hardest story to tell.

#miserypit #A #CT #Q

Glitch in Reality Moodboard; It has some spooky forest imagery, Monster hunter aesthetic, greens, browns, and some evidence tapes.

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY X MONSTERS WE MAKE

For Solace, streaming is a desperate hustle to keep the lights on. But when a cryptic job offer slides into his DMs he assumes it’s some twisted ARG. until they start showing up for real.

#MiseryPit #YA #SFFT #WIP #FT

A gallows frame at the entrance to a mine in Butte, Montana

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED X YELLOWSTONE

💉A serial killer deathly good at twisting the righteous words

🚓 A local cop racing to stop a Luciferian evil

🥃 Moonshine, mining, & madness

🤕 Traumatic pasts

👻 Haunting history of the Irish who came to the US & settled the West

#A #T #Q #miserypit

6 photos. Left side - a hangman’s noose. Top right of this - a white drone in flight on a completely black background. Right of this - black & white photo of a man’s bare back and shoulders. His hands held behind his neck gripping on tightly to a knife. Is he trying to stab himself in the back? Or is he concealing it behind himself about to stab someone else? His spine and muscles are tight and exposed as if he is fighting with inner demons. Right of this - a sideways on view of the upper torso and head of a silver metal android, its hand poised under its chin as if it is thinking deep thoughts. Above this image, written in white capital letters are the words ‘Is it you?’. Left of this - a bloody kitchen knife on a blood-spattered tiled floor. Left of this - a partially silhouetted person in a space suit, their back to the camera, heading toward a ring of light protruding up out of a barren rocky landscape.

Locked house style mystery

IS IT YOU?

Being stuck on the moon with a killer, that’s Andrew’s misfortune. Now, he’s running for his life and doesn’t know who to trust. Andrew must see through the secrets and lies to get off the moon base alive.

#MiseryPit #Querying #A #SFFM

My 65,000 word speculative thriller features the psychological tension and darker undertones of THE GIRLS I’VE BEEN by Tess Sharpe and delivers social commentaries and features a ticking clock like in ACE OF SPADES by Farida Àbíké-Íyímídé.

#MiseryPit #Q #YA #T #H

Love love love

MURDER, SHE KINKED:
Ava is a writer working at being a dominatrix as research for her next novel. When her best friend and mentor is brutally murdered, she continues in the business to search for the killer. Will she be the next victim?

#A #CT #Q #MiseryPit

Thank you Amber ❤️‍🔥

Stephen King's IT x Monsters, Inc.

An otherworldly terror is coming for Tim Beaulieu and his daughter Cleo. Tim must look into his past in order to save their future.

Will they be able to defeat THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET? #A #Horror #Q #MiseryPit

Mood board of alternating images mocking up a cover for The Hollow, a 98K Historical Horror by J.W. Gant. Upper left is Isabella wearing a long leather woolen coat and sunglasses. Upper right is a foggy image of a figure in a tunnel. Bottom left is a lone man walking in a foggy forest. Bottom right is a foggy cemetery near nightfall.

Vampires, Wealth, inspired by The Godfather

A peasant girl becomes the mastermind behind an evil power seeking to enslave humanity. She must choose between strength and death on her 25th birthday. Will her need for strength consume her, and how many must die for her to find out?

#MiseryPit #Q #HT

Give me the Vikings!! lol

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance.
#2025Pit #A #HF #R #T

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x TOGETHER WE ROT

A botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his kegger as a siren lures him and his friends into the water in this dark re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay.

#miserypit #Q #YA #T

Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor.

KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away.

KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?

KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).

#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Professional hitman Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play.

🩸 cosmic horror
🩸 criminal underworld
🩸 married MCs
🩸 villain protagonist

#MiseryPit #WIP #A #SFFT

A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON

Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

School crest of Uther Academy.

A string of mysterious deaths leads high school seniors Jennifer and August to the elite Uther Academy. Slowly, they unravel a two-hundred-year-old secret at the beating heart of the school. But can they uncover Uther’s secret before the school swallows them whole?
#MiseryPit #Q #YA #M
Art-Evy Abel

Dorian Gray X Frankenstein

At a gothic university steeped in mist and secrets, a disillusioned scholar and a beautiful, haunted student make a pact to cheat death through alchemy. But as obsession twists into tragedy, they must face the cost of immortality—and love.

#MiseryPit #YA #HT #FT #WIP

SHARP OBJECTS X HILL HOUSE w/ (10) lit agent interest✨

Baylor’s obsession with Kara is dark and consuming—even on their first date. But when she vanishes, he’s hunted by his doppelgänger and must confront himself before time ticks.
#MiseryPit #H #T #A #Q #querying #litagents

A Fate tasked with scheduling the lives and deaths of mortals must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on the doorstep of her best friend, Death.

Whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea X small town charm of Murder, She Wrote

#MiseryPit #A #Q #FM

#MiseryPit

As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her.

Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place.

But what is the stranger’s motive?

And does Evie want to be saved?

#CT #A

Mockup cover for How to Steal From the President While Saving a Foster Home by J.W. Gant Words float across a pastel blue sky with puffs of white clouds scattered about. "A Silly Caper Story"

Ocean's Eleven X The Naked Gun

A man unemployed so long the foster home he & his wife run will be foreclosed, must mend his relationship with his retired master thief father, with Alzheimer’s, and turn to crime. The score? A portrait of the Prez and one million cash.

#MiseryPit #A #CT #WIP Satire

GUMSHOE FRANKENSTEIN: A real-life Frankenstein's monster seeks a Dracula ring stolen by the secret immortality cult that runs Hollywood. Hardboiled and snarky. 68K words. Will appeal to Jim Butcher fans, and would fit inside the world of Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water.

#MiseryPit #A #FM #Q

A road leading into a dark misty forest

An dark, black and white photograph of a hallway in a hotel

A dark and misty forest

Ninth HouseXThe Shining

Hollow boy+cautious girl+a job full of promise & secrets.

Between cryptic staff, a dark pull, &haunting guests, can the fresh meat find the true cost of what they’ve been offered?

There are no coincidences in The Good Shade Hotel.

#MiseryPit #WIP #FT #NA #LGBT #Horror

Image of Christian la Cour and Anna Lendorph, leading characters. Artist: Anne Gyrite Schütt. Collage of real life images of a street of detective bureaus, police forensic lab, shredded paper evidence, caricature of famous woman private detective, divers searching for knife and drawing of crime scene from paper.

True crime meets cozy in an 1910 setting in a tour de force of burglaries, smuggling, murders and top notch international police cooperation. Anna and Christian do som uplifting detective work – quite literally. And the criminals are … unusual.

#MiseryPit #TCM #HM #A #Q
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A mood board of fall and academic scenes.

WEDNESDAY X THE SECRET ADVERSARY

Husband and wife duo Elsie and Giles race to find a long lost laboratory at the boarding school where they teach, before a mysterious figure can uncover the lab's secrets or put their students in danger.

#Miserypit #A #CM #Q

Obsessed with this concept!! ❤️‍🔥

Ooo this is dark and very interesting!! Great job