A literary cosmic-horror noir

Some mysteries
are built to keep you looking.

A private investigator follows a dead student's last message into a drowned New England town where the buildings rearrange themselves, a theater casts him as its patient, and the machinery recognizes his hands.

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Cover of Monuments by M. Fawkes
Literary horrorSupernatural noirWeird fictionSerwick, Massachusetts

The trail leads inward.

Private investigator Vincent Trench has learned not to trust the world at night. He has learned not to trust his memories, either. When Sarah Collins asks him to investigate the death of her boyfriend, Stephen, the case offers one impossible lead: a message from a phone line that no longer exists.

The trail leads to Serwick, a drowned town where abandoned hotels rearrange themselves, a midnight theater knows his name, and every locked door seems to recognize his hands. Beneath the fog, something is preserving the wreckage of an old experiment—and something else is still trying to get out.

“The machinery knows his body.”

For readers who like atmospheric mysteries, morally compromised narrators, and horror that leaves the light on after the last page.

There are things in this world plain reason can't survive looking at straight on.

— Vincent Trench

Morgan Fawkes

Morgan Fawkes writes cosmic horror, supernatural noir, and strange fiction. Their work explores memory, identity, culpability, and the stories people construct when reality becomes too terrible to face directly.

Monuments is their debut novella, blending hard-boiled investigation with surreal architecture, corrupted memories, and the slow realization that some mysteries are built to keep you looking.

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