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Brandon Burnside Books & Manuscripts.
Brandon Burnside’s completed body of work includes eight published books and twenty-seven completed manuscripts. This public visual catalog identifies all eight books and twenty-six manuscripts; one additional completed manuscript remains confidential. Each public record includes its cover, description or synopsis, publishing details, and rights statement. © 2020–2026 Brandon Burnside. All Rights Reserved.
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Eight published books
Every currently published Brandon Burnside title with its complete public description, publication details, themes, cover, purchase link, and rights statement.
Published 2020 · Post-apocalyptic horror
American Purge
Official description
A devastating plague sweeps across the United States and tears civilization apart. Cities empty, law and order disappear, and the people left behind soon learn that infection is only one of the dangers waiting beyond their doors. A group of survivors must cross a violent new America where every stranger could be an enemy and every choice carries a cost. Their fight to stay alive becomes a test of loyalty, courage, and how much of their humanity they can preserve.
SurvivalCollapseLoyaltyHumanity- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8682600458
- Edition
- B08HGPPKKY
© 2020 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2020 · Slasher horror
“82” Year of the Monster
Official description
Tampa Bay becomes the hunting ground for a merciless killer in a nightmare inspired by the raw terror of 1980s slasher films. What begins as an unthinkable act of violence grows into a trail of fear, secrets, and bloodshed. The people caught in the killer’s path must understand what they are facing before another victim falls. As the danger closes in, surviving the night means confronting a monster who refuses to stop hunting.
Tampa Bay1980s horrorA relentless killerSurvival- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8575680680
- Edition
- B08PQZTRHH
© 2020 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2022 · Supernatural horror
When a Moon Comes Alive at Midnight
Official description
Ghost hunter Jonathon Burns enters the abandoned Ravenswood Tuberculosis Sanitarium expecting another night of evidence for his audience. Instead, beneath the full moon, he sees a mysterious woman in white who appears to have been waiting for him. Her name is Laura, and the truth behind her haunting reaches far beyond the sanitarium’s ruined walls. Jonathon’s investigation becomes a journey through hidden history, love, loss, and a promise powerful enough to reach beyond death.
Ghost huntingHaunted historyLove and lossPromises- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8364907448
- Edition
- B0BRC4KCVK
© 2022 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2020 · Occult horror
Cursed Book of the Devil’s Dummy
Official description
Eddie Fiorentini discovers an old book connected to a sinister ventriloquist dummy and a darkness that has been waiting since 1959. Strange events quickly turn deadly, and the dummy seems to know things it should not. Every secret Eddie uncovers pulls him deeper into a murderous bargain built on fear and sacrifice. To survive, he must learn who created the curse, why it chose him, and whether the evil inside the book can be destroyed before it claims another victim.
A cursed objectOccult secrets1959Sacrifice- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8647250124
- Edition
- B088WPRYP7
© 2020 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2022 · Italian crime thriller
The Detailer
Official description
A man known as the Detailer is drawn into a dangerous world shaped by Italian blood, criminal loyalty, and deadly obligations. Armed with two gold pistols and guided by a personal code he refuses to abandon, he must decide how far he will go to protect the people who matter most. Every alliance carries a risk, and every betrayal demands a price. From Tampa’s rain-soaked waterfront to the old-world ties of Italy, this crime thriller explores family, survival, and the deadly cost of misplaced trust.
Italian rootsCrime familiesLoyaltyBetrayal- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8359773874
- Edition
- B0BKCX7K1C
© 2022 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2022 · Psychological horror
The Dreams of Sharon Mars
Official description
Sharon Mars is haunted by nightmares so vivid they refuse to end when she wakes. Familiar places—including University Mall and the glowing sign of Lionel Playworld—become stages for terrifying visions that follow her into reality. As the boundary between memory, nightmare, and waking life begins to collapse, Sharon must discover what is calling to her and why. The closer she comes to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes to wake up—and even more dangerous to keep dreaming.
NightmaresMemoryTampa landmarksReality unraveling- Formats
- Kindle
- Edition
- Kindle edition
© 2022 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2026 · Supernatural slasher horror
Camp Evergreen
Official description
In the summer of 1987, eight young adults arrive early to prepare Camp Evergreen before the campers return. A handmade spirit board tied to the camp’s 1967 massacre awakens an evil that can move from person to person, turning every friendship into a question and every survivor into a possible killer.
1987PossessionSummer-camp slasherSurvival- Formats
- Paperback · Kindle
- ISBN-13
- 979-8172221552
- Edition
- Amazon edition
© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Published 2026 · Folk horror · Dark suspense
Tampa Italiano: Welcome Home, Family
Official description
Natalie Harrow has spent forty-eight years wondering who gave her their eyes, their hands, and the blank place on her birth certificate. When a free ancestry test from the Tampa Italiano Language & Heritage Center leads her to family in Canepina, Italy, the answer seems almost too beautiful: open arms, old photographs, and a village ready to welcome her home. But the reunion has been staged for an audience Natalie cannot see. Behind the heritage trips and HOME AT LAST success stories is a network that turns bloodlines, loneliness, and the promise of belonging into a trap. In Canepina, family is forever—and leaving may be impossible.
Ancestry and belongingCanepinaFamily secretsFolk horror- Formats
- Paperback
- ISBN-13
- 979-8172671845
- Edition
- B0HJ7SK15M
© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Published Literary Work · All Rights Reserved
Twenty-six publicly identified manuscripts.
These records present covers, hooks, public synopses, settings, lengths, themes, current status, and individual ownership notices. One additional completed manuscript remains confidential, bringing the complete manuscript total to twenty-seven.
Completed trilogy · Book One
Her Name, Written in Blood — Book One
She crossed an ocean to make her name. New York answered in blood.
Official synopsis
In 1923, twenty-three-year-old Lucia Bellandi leaves Canepina, Italy, for New York with her father’s savings sewn into her coat and a private dream of Broadway. The city offers possibility, but it also judges her accent, her surname, and her empty pockets. As Lucia earns her first real role, she falls for Mario, an Italian American ironworker and war veteran who must learn that loving her is not the same as deciding for her.
Lucia’s rising profile draws the attention of polished racketeer Carlo Vitale and his violent rival, Emilio Mancuso. Extortion, nightclub gunfire, police corruption, and a theater fire turn her success into leverage—and when Lucia’s name is written in another young actress’s blood, she refuses to let fear define what the Bellandi name will mean. Her fight for love, independence, and a future of her own opens a completed three-book family crime saga.
- Genre
- Historical crime saga
- Setting
- Canepina & New York · 1923–1926
- Length
- 105,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
Immigrant ambitionBroadwayFamily legacyProhibition crime© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Completed trilogy · Book Two
Her Name, Written in Blood II: Bound by Blood
The Bellandi name survived New York. Now it has become a target.
Official synopsis
Lucia returns to New York in September 1926 and finds a Canadian-stamped warning beneath her contracts: WE REMEMBER NAMES. Emilio Mancuso is still alive, the criminal network behind him is rebuilding, and Lucia refuses to abandon either the stage or Bellandi Productions. Mario remains beside her, even as work, danger, and Lucia’s fear of giving fate one more promise repeatedly delay their wedding.
When Lucia’s gifted younger sister Rosa crosses the Atlantic to build a career in costume design, the Bellandi family’s American dream grows larger—and more exposed. Through the final years of the Roaring Twenties, black cars, automatic gunfire, corrupt policemen, and a gathering financial collapse close around the family. Lucia must decide whether a famous name is a weakness criminals can exploit or a legacy strong enough to survive them.
- Genre
- Historical crime saga
- Setting
- New York · 1926–1930
- Length
- 110,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
SisterhoodLegacyOrganized crimeThe Roaring Twenties© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Completed trilogy · Book Three
Her Name, Written in Blood — Book Three: The Bellandi Legacy
The past demanded blood. The future demands a name.
Official synopsis
With the Great Depression closing around New York, Lucia Bellandi fights to keep Bellandi Theatre alive while enemies trade bullets for forged invoices, manipulated debt, and pressure aimed at every business connected to her family. A man calling himself James Ward infiltrates the building and warns her not to open a new production, proving the threat against the Bellandis has learned how to hide behind respectable faces.
Paolo returns from Italy carrying Rosa’s green coat and joins the theatre’s business operations as Lucia, Mario, investigators, witnesses, and prosecutors turn survival into a coordinated fight for justice. To finish the war over her family’s name, Lucia must choose whether the Bellandi legacy will be defined by grief and vengeance—or by the work, art, love, and future her family builds after the violence ends.
- Genre
- Historical crime saga
- Setting
- New York & Canepina · 1930–1935
- Length
- 100,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
The Great DepressionJusticeFamily legacyA name reclaimed© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Nightgrave Originals · Forthcoming
BLOOD ON THE HONOR ROLL
Some schools make leaders. This one makes monsters.
Official synopsis
Tampa, 1996. Sixteen-year-old Benedetto ‘Benny’ Corsico has spent most of his life fighting—for respect, for survival, and against the future everyone says he deserves. One final arrest leaves him with a choice: juvenile detention or Blackthorne Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school where wealth buys silence and cruelty hides behind tradition.
At Blackthorne, Benny collides with the Crown Eight, a ruthless circle of privileged students who rule through humiliation and violence. With brilliant outsider Milo Bellini, compassionate teacher Mr. Weather, and Veronica DeLuca beside him, Benny uncovers a buried legacy of blood beneath the school’s polished halls. As secrets surface and revenge turns deadly, he must decide whether surviving Blackthorne is worth becoming the monster it tried to create.
- Genre
- Adult dark academia · Crime thriller · Psychological suspense
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1996
- Length
- 91,677 words
- Structure
- 39 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Forthcoming from Nightgrave Publishing
1996 TampaElite boarding schoolPrivilege and violenceRevenge and survival© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Nightgrave Originals · Forthcoming
I’LL SIGN YOUR NAME WHEN YOU’RE DEAD
Every name on the page carries a price.
Official synopsis
In 1976 Tampa, novelist Alexander Taylor works late at his typewriter while the watchful Robert remains close. What begins as a struggle to write becomes something far more dangerous when the names entering Alexander’s manuscript begin carrying consequences beyond fiction.
As authorship turns into obsession and every new page tightens the trap, Alexander must discover who is truly controlling the story—and whose name will be signed when it ends.
- Genre
- Adult psychological horror · Literary suspense
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1976
- Length
- 85,000 words
- Structure
- 50 chapters
- Status
- Complete · Forthcoming from Nightgrave Publishing
1976 TampaA writer under surveillanceAuthorship and controlObsession© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Newest horror manuscript
WHEN THE STREETLIGHTS DIE
Every door locks at 6:47. When the streetlights fail, the Hollow Men come up.
Official synopsis
Tampa, 1983. Every evening, the people of Forest Hills bolt their windows before the siren. When nine-year-old Evan Pike vanishes and returns speaking in stolen voices, seventeen-year-old Daniel Mercer learns the Hollow Men do not simply kill: they keep victims alive beneath the city, draining fear, memories, voices, and vitality until the captives become monsters.
To save Evan and find the mother taken eleven years earlier, Daniel must unite a terrified neighborhood, descend into the tunnels beneath Sulphur Springs, and keep Tampa's last streetlights burning long enough to close what is waking in the dark.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1983
- Length
- Approx. 84,000 words
- Structure
- 46 chapters plus epilogue
- Manuscript
- 374 manuscript pages
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
1983 TampaThe Hollow MenMissing childrenNeighborhood resistance© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Recent psychological horror manuscript
I Loved You Before You Knew Me
He loved her before she knew him. Surviving him means teaching him what love is not.
Official synopsis
In 1984 Tampa, Nina Caruso begins noticing small violations around the Royal Palms Motor Lodge: an object moved, a window opened, a man breathing behind an ordinary old-man mask. Her watcher is Milo Hollis, an escaped institutional patient who mistakes surveillance for devotion and believes a person’s final gaze can preserve the soul.
As detectives Rafael Martinez and Joan Rourke uncover the women Milo has stalked, recorded, and killed, Nina discovers that his obsession began with the sister he strangled as a teenager. Milo has spent years learning Nina’s routines and building hidden rooms beneath the city for the ending he believes she owes him. To survive, Nina must remain frightened without becoming passive—and fight the man who has confused being seen with being loved.
- Genre
- Adult psychological horror · Thriller
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1984
- Length
- 91,459 words
- Structure
- 36 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
1984 TampaObsessive stalkingWomen who fight backThe horror of being watched© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
REVENGE series · Book One
REVENGE ’85: THE NEW KID
Fear is theirs. Revenge is yours.
Official synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Danny Marino expects his move to Tampa to mean a new school and a clean break from the father he left behind. Instead, he finds Chamberlain High ruled by Robby Kane and the Chiefs, a pack of violent rich-kid predators protected by something far more dangerous than teenage cruelty.
When students begin disappearing, Danny uncovers a criminal empire built by Robby’s father, Victor Kane. With Rebecca Vale and battle-scarred karate instructor Calvin ‘Fearless’ Mercer beside him, Danny is pulled into a war stretching from school hallways to the Tampa waterfront. To save the missing kids and protect the people he loves, the new kid must become the one who fights back.
- Genre
- Adult 1980s crime · Action · Horror-revenge thriller
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1985
- Length
- Approx. 90,000 words
- Status
- Acquired by Nightgrave Publishing · No longer available
1985 TampaMartial artsCriminal familyRevenge and redemption© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
REVENGE series · Book Two
REVENGE ’86: NO ONE GETS OUT
They survived 1985. In 1986, the men behind Victor Kane come to finish the story.
Official synopsis
Tampa, summer 1986. A late-night payphone summons Danny Moreno into the unfinished war left by Victor Kane. Raymond Voss, a name buried in Calvin ‘Fearless’ Mercer’s past, has spent decades turning boxers, police officers, businesses, and missing young people into a system called Crown. When a hunted boy arrives with a warning and a black ledger points back to Danny, Calvin, Becca, and Robby, the survivors of 1985 learn that Victor was only one piece of a much larger machine.
The trail runs from a shuttered arcade and Tall Pines to Miami boxing gyms, Bay St. Louis, school halls, and hidden Crown archives. White roses mark the watched, old family secrets fracture loyalties, and a new director uses kidnapped children and fight tapes to turn Danny Moreno into a symbol. To rescue them and break the inheritance of violence, Danny must decide whether courage means landing the final blow—or refusing to become the men he is fighting.
- Genre
- Adult 1980s crime · Action · Revenge thriller
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1986
- Length
- Approx. 80,000 words
- Structure
- 48 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Acquired by Nightgrave Publishing · No longer available
1986 TampaCrime conspiracyInherited violenceChoosing restraint© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book One
WHEN THE ROOMS LEARN YOUR NAME
He spent his life proving ghosts were fake. Then one house learned his name.
Official synopsis
In 1995 Tampa, skeptical horror author Bram Kestrel enters the Carroway with documentary researcher Nozomi Kuroda, expecting to expose another manufactured haunting. Instead, the impossible rooms learn their names, change around them, and force them to confront a house that does not merely contain its victims—it records, rearranges, and keeps them.
Bram and Nozomi must read the Carroway’s rules before the house rewrites them into its history. Their escape changes both investigators and becomes the first complete supernatural case in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi, a continuing series built around a new self-contained haunting in every novel.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1995
- Length
- 65,095 words
- Structure
- 45 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
1995 TampaHaunted roomsA skeptic confrontedEvidence through the camera© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Two
THE LIGHT THAT CALLS THEM HOME
The light speaks in the voices of the dead—and asks the living to choose.
Official synopsis
After surviving the Carroway, Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda open a paranormal office in downtown Tampa. The publicity brings a television opportunity, a flood of new cases, and Malik St. James to the front desk. One call leads to the Vale family and a lantern tied to St. Aurelia, where fourteen children died in a fire and the dead have learned how to call the grieving home.
The light does not simply imitate lost loved ones. It tempts people to choose the dead over the living, while Sister Agnes wears Bram’s face and pieces of St. Aurelia surface across Tampa. With rival ghost hunter Gideon Voss sabotaging their work and a nervous television crew demanding evidence, Bram and Nozomi must close the doorway without letting public attention turn the haunting into something larger.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · St. Aurelia
- Length
- Approx. 71,100 words
- Structure
- 40 chapters plus epilogue
- Manuscript
- 384 manuscript pages
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
Supernatural griefThe St. Aurelia lanternTampa paranormal televisionA dangerous rival© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Three
THE HOTEL THAT NEVER CHECKS OUT
The hotel does not keep its guests. It turns them into rooms.
Official synopsis
A hotel built with two floors develops three more overnight. Its new doors bear the names of Bram Kestrel, Nozomi Kuroda, and everyone closest to them, while Room 301 offers lives they might have lived and a wet-haired woman waits in the impossible corridors. At Marrow House, checking in is not a reservation—it is an identity the building intends to make permanent.
As Arthur Marrow fights to keep ownership of the people his hotel has reduced to rooms, public fascination with Bram and Nozomi’s television work feeds the impossible floors. A return bell may let the trapped residents check out, but the phenomenon has already reached Nozomi’s family in Japan. To free the hotel’s forgotten guests, Bram and Nozomi must refuse every role the building assigns them—including its version of their future together—and choose what their newly declared love will mean for themselves.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa Bay · Marrow House · 1995
- Length
- Approx. 65,423 words
- Structure
- 60 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
Impossible hotel floorsIdentity and alternate livesBram and Nozomi become a coupleRoom 301© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Four
THE DEAD STILL LIVE UPSTAIRS
There is no third floor. But the dead still live upstairs.
Official synopsis
A North Tampa family hears footsteps, running water, and furniture moving above the ceiling of a two-story house. Their daughter’s phone photographs a staircase that is invisible to the naked eye, and nine-year-old Caleb disappears after warning them about a wet-haired woman upstairs. Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda arrive to investigate a floor that should not exist—and discover that cameras, reflections, and stories can reveal different versions of an expanding upper architecture.
As impossible floors spread across homes, the team’s office, and eventually the Tampa skyline, public attention gives the phenomenon more rooms and more victims. With Malik, Kenji, Barbara, and even rival investigator Gideon drawn into the case, Bram and Nozomi must find Caleb, understand the buried history of the Aurelia, and deny a haunting that turns people into roles, memories into architecture, and certainty into an open door.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1995
- Length
- Approx. 75,080 words
- Structure
- 36 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
Impossible upper floorsA missing childHaunted architectureThe Aurelia© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Five
THE CHURCH BENEATH THE WATER
The fifth complete case in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi.
Verified public record
The Church Beneath the Water is the fifth complete, unpublished novel in Brandon Burnside’s Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi series. Its verified public record confirms the title, series placement, complete status, and forty-chapter-plus-epilogue structure.
Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda return as the continuing investigators in another self-contained supernatural case. Detailed story material and the full manuscript remain private and are available only for confidential professional review.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Setting withheld from this public preview
- Length
- Complete manuscript
- Structure
- 40 chapters plus epilogue
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
Supernatural horrorBram KestrelNozomi KurodaComplete unpublished manuscript© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Six
THE MOUNTAIN DOOR
The sixth complete case in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi.
Verified public record
The Mountain Door is the sixth complete, unpublished novel in Brandon Burnside’s Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi series. The verified saved record confirms its title, series placement, and status as a complete novel.
Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda return as the continuing investigators in another self-contained supernatural case. Detailed story material, exact length, chapter structure, and the full manuscript remain private pending verified professional review.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Setting withheld from this public preview
- Length
- Complete manuscript
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
Supernatural horrorBram KestrelNozomi KurodaComplete unpublished manuscript© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Seven
THE HOUSE BEHIND HER CLOSET
The seventh complete case in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi.
Verified public record
The House Behind Her Closet is the seventh complete, unpublished novel in Brandon Burnside’s Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi series. The verified saved record identifies it as the complete edited agent master for Book Seven.
Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda return as the continuing investigators in another self-contained supernatural case. Detailed story material, exact length, chapter structure, and the full manuscript remain private pending verified professional review.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Setting withheld from this public preview
- Length
- Complete manuscript
- Status
- Complete · Edited agent master · Unpublished
Supernatural horrorBram KestrelNozomi KurodaEdited agent master© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Eight
THE CEMETERY WITH NO NAMES
At Saint Mercy, the dead are not the only ones who can lose their names.
Official synopsis
In their eighth complete case, Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda investigate Saint Mercy, a cemetery whose nameless graves lead to the Name House. When Nozomi’s name is taken, she remains physically present—but even her brother Kenji can no longer remember what she is called.
To restore what was stolen, Bram, Nozomi, and their team must confront the false Watch, the Keeper, a supernatural bell mechanism, an unknown child, Bram’s own grave, and seven role traps. The mystery resolves as a complete standalone case while its epilogue opens the door to Book Nine and Room 13.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- Saint Mercy cemetery
- Length
- 66,715 words
- Structure
- Prologue + 50 chapters + epilogue
- Manuscript
- 302 rendered manuscript pages
- Status
- Complete · Edited agent master · Unpublished
Stolen namesSaint MercyThe Name HouseIdentity and memory© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Nine
THE THIRTEENTH DESK
At West Haven, attendance never ends—and Room Thirteen is calling one more name.
Official synopsis
In 1971, a teacher at West Haven Middle School takes attendance in a classroom with twelve students and thirteen desks. When Peter Valez answers a dead intercom's call with one word—present—the room seals its own history behind the walls.
Decades later, Bram Kestrel and Nozomi Kuroda investigate the abandoned Room Thirteen, where attendance is announced every morning and one living person is always marked absent. To break the roll call, they must uncover the student who was never enrolled before the last bell makes the class permanent.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror
- Setting
- West Haven Middle School, Tampa · 1971 and the present
- Length
- 71,459 words
- Structure
- Prologue + 22 chapters + epilogue
- Manuscript
- 249 manuscript pages
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished
Haunted classroomThe thirteenth name1971 TampaMemory and erasure© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi · Book Ten
THE FOURTEENTH NAME
The last name on the roll may be yours.
Official synopsis
At Mercy Falls High School, a sealed observation corridor conceals the legacy of researcher Marian Weller and an experiment built around thirteen subjects and the watcher who believed she stood outside the count. When the dark glass begins shaping the behavior of everyone who enters, Bram and Nozomi discover a haunting that does more than observe: it pressures its victims to become the identities assigned to them.
With their team caught inside the performance, they must uncover who carries the fourteenth name—and force the watcher to become part of the story she created. The case stands as the tenth complete, unpublished novel in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi and remains available for confidential professional review.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural mystery · Paranormal horror
- Setting
- Mercy Falls High School
- Length
- 68,991 words
- Status
- Complete · Unpublished · Seeking representation
The watcher in the glassAssigned identitiesMercy Falls High SchoolThe fourteenth name© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Featured new manuscript
The Version They Accepted
A rejected novelist discovers the book that got accepted is rewriting reality to erase him from his own story.
Official synopsis
At 2:13 a.m., Miles Harlan receives the rejection he has spent six years dreading. Minutes later, he learns that debut writer Adrian Vale has sold a novel containing Miles’s invented road, characters, scenes—and even the private revisions his estranged wife suggested. Then the evidence begins changing. Emails vanish, screenshots go blank, old drafts rewrite themselves, and the byline on Miles’s manuscript becomes Adrian’s name.
Miles discovers the accepted book is not merely stealing his work. It is replacing his authorship, identity, relationships, and eventually his body. With the people closest to him starting to forget he ever wrote the novel, Miles must challenge a publishing system that can make one version of a story real—and erase everyone the chosen version no longer needs.
- Genre
- Adult psychological horror · Supernatural thriller
- Setting
- Florida & New York · Contemporary
- Length
- 83,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
Publishing nightmareIdentity erasureMetafictionDark humor© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
New manuscript
What Death Is Owed
Love can postpone death. It cannot erase the debt.
Official synopsis
In 1994 Tampa, thirty-six-year-old Nora Vale refuses to accept that her father, Elias, is dying from a degenerative illness. When medicine has nothing left to offer, Nora turns to Mara Vey, an elderly folk healer known as the Remedy Woman. Mara can restore Elias—but life cannot be created, only moved, and every dose must be purchased from someone else.
Nora begins choosing victims she believes the world will not miss. Elias grows healthier and younger, while the voices and memories of the dead begin surfacing inside him. A box of 1958 clippings reveals that Nora’s family has paid this price before, and the final remedy demands the one death Elias could never survive. To end the cycle, Nora must face the difference between saving someone and making another life into currency.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural · Psychological horror
- Setting
- Tampa · 1994
- Length
- 95,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
GriefFolk horrorMoral corruptionInherited debt© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
New manuscript
The Little Mouths Below
The house does not creak. It chews.
Official synopsis
In August 1996, newlyweds Claire and Evan move into Vane House, a decaying Georgia farmhouse where they hope to build a quiet life and start a family. Behind a barred section of the basement, they discover a sealed opening, children’s voices, and evidence that the house once belonged to Eleanor Vane, a nineteenth-century witch who abducted children.
The children never left. Their souls are trapped inside foot-tall, sharp-toothed creatures that crawl through the walls, feed on the living, and steal memories from the people they mark. As Claire’s pregnancy raises the stakes, the couple must break Eleanor’s hold over the house before its hungry little mouths erase their family before it can begin.
- Genre
- Supernatural folk horror
- Setting
- Briar County, Georgia · 1996
- Length
- 85,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
Haunted houseA witch’s curseCreature horrorLost children© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
New manuscript
The Last Reading
Vivian can stop the death she sees. Someone else always pays.
Official synopsis
After a final reading for Elena Dragomir, fraudulent psychic Vivian begins seeing deaths before they happen—first her own, then the deaths of the people she loves. She can intervene and save the person in her vision, but death does not disappear. It redirects to someone else, often at the exact moment Vivian believes she has won.
Sleep-deprived and desperate, Vivian turns her home into a fortress and uncovers the betrayal that brought Elena’s curse to her door. The only possible exit leads through Carrie, the best friend who helped build Vivian’s business and hid the worst of their fraud. Breaking the curse may require Vivian to commit the one act that would prove she deserves it.
- Genre
- Psychological supernatural horror
- Setting
- Tampa Bay · Contemporary
- Length
- 97,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
Death visionsRedirectionBetrayalMoral horror© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
New manuscript · Sharon Mars II
The Uncut Shelf: The Dreams of Sharon Mars II
The rarest tapes at Unique Video were never movies.
Official synopsis
In 1987 Tampa Bay, a new detective investigating a trail of brutal VHS recordings finds Unique Video, a strange independent rental shop run by Benson Ray. The rarest tapes do more than document murder: copied from one machine to another, they reproduce violent commands and pull viewers into crimes that should exist only on magnetic tape.
The case reaches back to a 1978 House of Horrors investigation and a killer officially declared dead. With Detective Maria Fucci drawn back into the darkness that killed her former partner, Sharon Mars must enter a world of neon aisles, unmarked cassettes, and buried footage before the curse reaches her nine-year-old son.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror · Thriller
- Setting
- Tampa Bay · 1987
- Length
- 90,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
VHS horror1980s TampaA killer on tapeSharon Mars© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
New manuscript
The Price of a Bestseller
Every masterpiece demands a sacrifice. Daniel Vale’s demands a body.
Official synopsis
In 1986 Tampa, forty-one-year-old Daniel Vale is a struggling novelist watching his last chance disappear. Then a murder he writes happens exactly as described. The pages gain a power they never had before, and success arrives with a terrifying rule: the story only becomes real after someone dies according to the scene.
As Daniel’s fame grows, the people who loved him begin forgetting him—first small memories, then whole pieces of their lives together. Guided by a mysterious former writer who understands the bargain, Daniel must choose between the career he has spent years chasing and the human connections being erased to pay for it.
- Genre
- Adult supernatural horror · Thriller
- Setting
- Tampa · 1986
- Length
- 89,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
1986 TampaDark ambitionMemory erasureA deadly bargain© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
Featured manuscript
A Dangerous Love Between Us
Power gave Misty Rose Vanderbilt everything—except a way out.
Official synopsis
At eighteen, Misty Rose Vanderbilt has spent her life surviving under the control of Christian Vanderbilt, the feared head of a Tampa Bay crime dynasty. Then Lee, a tattooed valet, saves her from a speeding car—and treats her like a person instead of an inheritance.
Their growing connection gives Misty the courage to choose a life beyond her father’s gates. But when she makes her move, family secrets, hired killers, and a mother long believed dead turn her escape into a fight for survival. To protect the people who risk everything for her, Misty must stop running, expose Christian’s empire, and confront the man who considers her freedom a betrayal.
- Genre
- Adult crime thriller · Romantic suspense
- Setting
- Tampa Bay, Florida
- Length
- 98,000 words
- Status
- Complete · Seeking representation
Forbidden loveFamily secretsCrime dynastySurvival© 2026 Brandon Burnside · Complete Unpublished Manuscript · Not for Distribution or Reproduction
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