Lanterns of Ash and Blood: A Gothic YA Horror of Curses, Shadows, and the Price of Redemption

Some curses never sleep. Some demand blood.

In the cursed village of Thornfell, lanterns burn red and shadows move on their own. Sera Thornfield has spent her life trying to escape the weight of her family’s past, but when the Lantern Walk awakens a horror long buried in the Ash Veil, she is forced to confront the truth: the village’s sins have never faded. They have only been waiting.

Armed with a blood-red lantern and the cryptic words of a long-lost scholar, Sera ventures into the shifting, haunted ruins of The Shattered Spire. Time bends. The dead whisper. The walls remember. Every step brings her closer to the Harbinger—the shadow that cursed her ancestors and now threatens to consume Thornfell forever.

But the deeper she delves, the more the past unravels around her. Thornfell’s betrayal runs deeper than she ever imagined.

And the Harbinger isn’t the only thing waiting in the dark.