The Director’s Cuts: Horror Tales
Not every horror story gets released. Some are buried. Forgotten. Or never meant to be seen.
These are the films that whisper in projection rooms, flicker through broken reels, and show up on tapes no one remembers recording.
“Each novel is a standalone nightmare—scripted, cast, and directed by a man no one remembers hiring.” The Director.
No one has seen his face. No one has survived two of his films.
You're not reading a novel. You're watching his cut.
Just pray he never turns the camera on you.
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## Book 1: My Husband is a Serial Killer (and He Doesn't Know It)
The reel clicks to life in an empty theater. Frame one: a woman's trembling hands holding a bloodstained journal. The handwriting inside matches her husband's perfectly—each confession detailing murders that made headlines, each date stamped with precision.
Behind the camera, something breathes.
Mara Lockwood thought she'd escaped her fractured past when she married Daniel Kessler—a gentle trauma therapist who forgets where he puts his keys, loses hours to daydreams, and loves her with desperate intensity. Their seaside home feels safe. Quiet. Until the journal surfaces from a locked drawer, its pages filled with Daniel's careful script describing acts of violence he swears he never committed.
The camera never blinks.
As bodies surface along the fog-drenched Oregon coast and Detective Elara Finch closes her investigation net, Mara faces an impossible choice: expose the man she loves or become his accomplice. Because the deeper she digs, the more she discovers about their shared time at Haven Creek Mental Health Facility—memories that were supposed to stay buried.
Daniel's blackouts are getting worse. His sleepwalking more violent. And someone keeps leaving notes on Mara's windshield: "He doesn't remember what you made him do."
In the projection booth, a clapperboard snaps.
The Director adjusts his focus. He's been waiting for this story—one where the audience can't tell who's performing and who's just pretending to be real.
Because if Daniel's the killer, Mara might be the reason he became one.
And if she's covering for him...
The film has already started.
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Disclaimer: All characters are original. Visual references are imagined and used for creative purposes only. No real person, actor, or public figure is involved or affiliated with this work.
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