Threads
A dark historical work shaped by dread, memory, confinement, and the fragile threads that remain when institutions try to erase a life.
Written by Andrew Farren and published by Nightforge Press.
What happens when no one believes you?
Yorkshire, 1855.
A five-year-old girl sees a friend no one else can see.
When nightmares, sleepwalking, and unexplained voices convince the adults around her that something is wrong, she is sent to an institution that promises treatment, education, and care.
Instead, she enters a world where fear becomes diagnosis, resistance becomes evidence, and the people entrusted with protecting her have the power to decide what is real.
As years pass behind locked doors, she must find a way to preserve her own truth before the institution writes it for her.
Threads is a historical psychological horror novel about mental illness, institutional abuse, memory, survival, and what happens when a vulnerable person loses the right to be believed.
Some horrors do not need ghosts.