Have you ever looked into the dark closely? Or were you always afraid of what might be watching you so you never really looked? Did you ever acknowledge the things in the corners of your vision? Or did you look the other way and told yourself it was nothing? Were you afraid of your shadow following you around? What if I remind you that shadows are forever dark. And they only leave you when you've already been swallowed by darkness.

Tamira , a serene- beautiful spirit who was once a human before she passed away miserably in an arson that was played out in her mansion in Romania. Jubin Mehta is now on his new job as a part-time ghost hunter , to uncover the secrets of Lonen Palace which has haunted the Romanians for a long time . This story acts like a canvas on which a carnal play of obsession is painted by the meeting of a beautiful undying entity and a reckless paranormal investigator.

FEATURED on OFFICIAL WATTPAD's Community Happenings] Cover by the magician @MoranaInDesign (she is literally a magician!) Maya, a journalist, finds herself in the middle of religious panic when a prostitute she had met is found to be murdered. **** Lucifer, as they have been named, faces the namesake of the Devi in Devipuram. Will they be able to sacrifice this rose too like the other ones, or will the thorns now make them bleed to death? **** Maya has been tasked with writing something about the folk of Devipuram for the upcoming Puja magazine. She decides to visit the slums where the prostitutes live. Here, she meets Radha- a beautiful prostitute with a daughter. The very next day, Radha is found dead in the temple premises. And what the villagers label as the next-in-line in a chain of paranormal murders is a magnetic mystery in the life of Maya which tempts her to get to the root of this cruelty. Will she succeed in finding out the culprit or succumb to death like the five victims? WORD COUNT: 60,000-65,000 words

In a grand yet enigmatic luxury hotel, Ananya returns to investigate her fiancé's suspicious death two years prior. With a haunted past and a drive for closure, she goes undercover as a guest, only to clash with Raghav, the hotel's aloof and ambitious owner. Initially at odds, Ananya and Raghav are drawn into a web of mystery and danger as they uncover chilling secrets about the hotel's sinister history. As their investigation exposes hidden truths and personal betrayals, their antagonistic relationship gradually transforms into a deep, unexpected romance. In a race against time, they must confront the dark forces behind the hotel's curse and find justice before it's too late. ---

| 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | Akanksha, a forensic expert and her husband Vihaan, a CBI officer must work together through the gulf in their marriage to catch a serial killer threatening to expose their secrets. ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ When Akanksha returns to Jaipur for her best friend's wedding, she anticipates nothing out of the ordinary. The pre-wedding rituals remind her bitterly of her dream to marry for love and she dreads returning home to the brewing argument with her husband of seven years, Vihaan. But when a series of murders come knocking at Akanksha's door, she realises she cannot solve it alone. After avoiding each other like plague for years, she and Vihaan must put aside their differences and learn to work together to capture this serial killer. However, the nightmares of Akanksha's past are difficult to deny. Will the hunt for the murderer bring her and Vihaan closer together or are the secrets in their relationship too deep to ever find peace? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trigger/Content Warning: Elements of PTSD, anxiety, violence, abuse, death, mental health issues, mention of sexual abuse and rape, and other triggering issues. Please read only if you're comfortable reading these themes and the story is marked to be MATURE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Featured By @Romance, @dangerouslove, @WattpadRomanceIN, @ContemporaryLit, @generalfiction, @WattpadChicklitIN and @MysteryThrillerIN | This amazing cover is made by @NattKuznetsov © akiimarvelous 2020 Exclusively On Wattpad

| 𝔉𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔡 x 3 | Book 1 in the FORTRESS series Spirits. Ghosts. Apparitions. Rudra Sharma doesn't believe in any of it. He has always been a Science buff. Majoring in Physics, hoping to become an IAS officer one day and solve the practical problems of the citizens, he is one of the last people to believe in anything paranormal, supernatural, or spooky. The only horror in his life stems from a bunch of strange nightmares he has of a warrior wielding a sword and riding a horse in the middle of an ancient fort. But those are only a bunch of random dreams. Nothing too serious for him to ponder over. He and his friends are optimistic about the absence of ghosts or spirits in their world. Hence, planning to spend a night at one of the most haunted places in India is nothing but an adventure for their young hearts. But when they reach the deserted town and visit the infamous fortress of Bhangarh, they are indeed forced to admit that there are... no ghosts. Lol! However, not everything is what it seems. People around Rudra seem to have secrets. His girlfriend does. His family does. His mother does. As one by one he and his friends begin experiencing the presence of the paranormal, a gruesome truth is revealed, tying his entire existence with the haunted fortress of Bhangarh. Not to forget, all of them have their lives hanging in the balance because an evil spirit has hitchhiked with them and is now roaming free, casting its menacing shadow, and biding its time to unleash hell. [Featured by: @Fantasy, @AmbassadorsIN, @fright]

I cannot speak of the horrors I have witnessed. These pages, stained with the shadows of forgotten horrors, bear witness to the unspeakable. Gensokyo, once a realm of fleeting peace, now festers in the suffocating grip of nightmares that I have been forced to record. I've witnessed the cursed halls of the vampire's mansion, where blood is both the currency of immortality and the price of madness. I've find myself beneath the haunting cherry blossoms, where death lingers with every petal that falls. I have seen the twisted nature of immortality, the wretched cruelty of time unyielding. I have saw evil, swallowing all that is pure and corrupts even the most sacred. And now, the land that we've thought to be immortal under the graceful barrier, had fallen apart as sinners walked the Earth above. May the gods save us all.

🏆Petals and Pages Award: Winner (Best Short Story)🏆 🏆Inked and Unwritten Award: 2nd Place🏆 🏆Grand Fiction Award: Shortlisted🏆 When a call from police brings the news of a friend's sudden death, Ruhi and Aarush are pulled into a spiral of grief, betrayal, and secrets. As love and obsession blur into one, they must decide how much truth they can carry, and how much lies are to bury forever.

In the shadows of a market that thrives on secrets, A woman makes a deal. A dream is reborn. But the price? It's never what you think. Enter Chhaya Bazaar, where bargains are struck in silence, And the Soul Trader always gets his due. Proceed with caution... Once you've traded, you can never return.

Ananya and Ishaan never planned to adopt. But when they find a mute child abandoned in the depths of the forest, something about him calls to them-an eerie, unspoken bond that neither can explain. The child never speaks, never cries. He only watches. But then, Ananya stumbles upon old photographs hidden in their attic-photographs of the same child, decades before he was ever found. As whispers of the past begin to unravel, their world tilts into something unrecognizable. The boy isn't just lost. He isn't just silent. He is a reflection of something they were never meant to see. And now that they have, he isn't letting go. A chilling psychological thriller that blurs the lines between reality and nightmare.