Told in serialized episodes across the haunted month of October, BEDLAM invites readers to journey step by step into the heart of Victorian terror. Each installment brings fresh revelations: the secret history of Oddington House, the buried relic whose discovery doomed a family, the rituals whispered in churchyards at midnight, the cruel practices of asylum doctors who mistake torment for treatment. And, always, the figure at the window?closer, clearer, and hungrier with every passing night.

On Halloween, when the veil between worlds thins, the tale reaches its terrible conclusion. What has been unearthed will demand reckoning, and Emily must choose whether she is to be victim, vessel, or destroyer.

BEDLAM: A Wychwood Ghost Story is more than a serial?it is a séance held in prose, a gothic descent crafted for autumn nights. It blends the unsettling atmosphere of Victorian London with the folkloric eeriness of England's ancient countryside. Readers who savor the uncanny, who find beauty in shadows and dread in silence, will discover in these pages a ghost story both intimate and vast, both historical and timeless.

Step into Fairheather. Listen for the whispers in the hall. Watch the windows. And if you see the gaunt figure gazing back at you, do not answer her question.

For she already knows where the beads are buried.

Duke Pierce Reade is an historian, futurist, researcher and writer living and working near the University of Chicago where songbirds are abundant, the trees canopy the streets, and the sunrise over Lake Michigan is spectacular.