Falling Story

Set against the spectral landscapes of Gloucestershire, Falling Story is a haunting meditation on memory, friendship, and the occult.When AJ begins to dream of falling, he is drawn back to his youth and the enigmatic Joetta Thomson-an intelligent but troubled young woman marked by a secret inheritance: the ability to see ghosts. What begins as an intimate portrait of friendship becomes a dark descent into folklore and ritual, as Jo, compelled by the discovery of her family's grimoire, edges ever closer to a fate entwined with the restless spirits of Prestbury. From ruined priory to windswept hill, the novel traces the thin line between the living and the dead, and the fragile boundary between salvation and surrender. In the tradition of M.R. James yet refracted through the unsettling modernism of Mark Danielewski and Paul Auster, Falling Story combines the gothic atmosphere of folk horror with a lyrical exploration of loss and the persistence of the past. Both ghost story and elegy, it is a work that lingers like an afterimage-unsettling, elegiac, and impossible to forget