Two Books. Two Experiences. One Dark Place.

TWO WAYS INTO THE DARK

A short time ago, these were just ideas.

Now there are two books sitting under the Distorted Light Studio name, and although they’re very different books, they came from the same place.

THE HOUSE OF BROKEN SLEEP: COLLECTED NIGHTMARES is the storytelling side.

It’s a collection of 17 horror stories built around strange places, unsettling encounters, things that shouldn’t be there, and the feeling that something is wrong long before you understand what it is.

Some of the stories are supernatural. Some lean into psychological horror. Others take ordinary situations and push them just far enough into the dark that they stop feeling ordinary.

Then there’s DARKNESS BETWEEN THE LINES: ADULT HORROR COLORING BOOK.

Instead of telling you the nightmare, this one gives you the imagery and lets you decide what to do with it.

Inside are 40 detailed black-and-white horror illustrations featuring ruined places, twisted figures, unnatural creatures, gothic environments, and other things that probably shouldn’t be waiting for you between the pages.

The artwork is printed single-sided so each illustration has its own page and can be approached however you want. Color it traditionally, make it ugly, make it beautiful, make it disturbing, or leave half of it in darkness.

That’s part of what I like about having these two books together.

One asks you to imagine the darkness.

The other asks you to put your own colors into it.

They weren’t originally planned as companion books. They simply grew out of the same creative space, and somewhere along the way I realized they belonged beside each other.

Two different books.

Two different experiences.

Two ways into the dark.

Both from Distorted Light Studio.

House of Broken Sleep 

Darkness Between the Lines 

The Previous Tenant Left Me a List of Rules

Sometimes a story takes on a life of its own.

I recently wrote a short horror story called “The Previous Tenant Left Me a List of Rules” and posted it to Reddit. The premise is simple: someone moves into apartment 3B and discovers that the previous tenant left behind a list of rules.

The problem isn't finding the list.

It's discovering why those rules exist.

I originally posted the story simply because I wanted to write another piece of horror and see what happened. I wasn't expecting much beyond a few readers. Instead, the story started spreading through r/horrorstories and eventually became my #1 Reddit post of all time, reaching more than nearly 20K views and being shared dozens of times.

That part still amazes me.

Numbers aren't really why I write these stories, but knowing that thousands of complete strangers encountered something I created is pretty damn cool. What started as another creepy idea became one of my most-read pieces on Reddit.

If psychological horror, strange apartments, unexplained rules, and the feeling that something is terribly wrong are your kind of thing, you can read “The Previous Tenant Left Me a List of Rules” on Reddit.

Just remember:

If somebody leaves you a list of rules, there's probably a reason.

Read It Here

The Devil’s Orgy: Part One – Priestess of Sin

 

The candles burned with black flame.
The choir sang in tongues no human mouth should know.
And beneath the ruined chapel, something ancient waited to be fed.

The Devil’s Orgy: Part One – Priestess of Sin descends into ritual horror, forbidden desire, corrupted faith, and the birth of something far worse than evil.

This is not a love story.
This is an invitation to the rite.

Enter the darkness here: