Scribbler Tales: The Gothic Collection by Mary Ann Bernal– Cinematic Trailer - Where Shadows Remember What We Forget

 

Bloodlust • Cunning • Forbidden Lore • Nightmare

The Hourglass • The Portrait • The Ritual

Note: This collection contains previously published stories from the Scribbler Tales series.

In forgotten corridors and ancestral halls, shadows cling to the walls like memories that refuse to die. Scribbler Tales: The Gothic Collection gathers seven chilling stories where dread is patient, secrets breathe, and ancient forces stir beneath the surface of ordinary lives.

Watch the Trailer below and step into a world where the past hunts the Living.

A Note from the Author

I wrote  Scribbler Tales: The Gothic Collection to explore the quiet terror that lives between moments — the breath before the candle goes out, the creak in an empty hallway, the instinct that something unseen is watching. Gothic horror is not about spectacle; it is about atmosphere, inheritance, and the shadows we carry.

These stories examine the weight of legacy, the lure of forbidden knowledge, and the thin line between fear and fascination. Each character faces a truth they were never meant to uncover and the consequences that follow when the past refuses to stay buried.

This collection is a journey through dread, revelation, and the haunting realization that some secrets choose their keepers.

About the Book

Bloodlust • Cunning • Forbidden Lore • Nightmare

The Hourglass • The Portrait • The Ritual

Note: This collection contains previously published stories from the Scribbler Tales series.

Shadows rise, secrets awaken, and ancient forces stir in seven dark tales where the past refuses to stay buried.

Ancestral homes whisper. Portraits breathe. Witches gather. Demons bargain.
Each story pulls its characters toward a truth more terrifying than the fear they carry. When the veil finally tears, they must confront the darkness that has been waiting for them — patient, hungry, and bound by blood.

This atmospheric anthology blends gothic mystery, dark folklore, supernatural possession, and ritual-driven horror into a chilling collection perfect for readers who crave haunted cemeteries, occult secrets, and slow-burning dread steeped in classic Gothic tradition.

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Open Scribbler Tales: The Gothic Collection and step into a world where the shadows remember everything.

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Curses, Secrets & Shadows—Scribbler Tales Volume Two by Mary Ann Bernal, Narrated by Roberto Scarlato

 

Scribbler Tales (Volume Two)

By: Mary Ann Bernal

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 02-10-15

Language: English

 

A Vengeful Verdict. A Hidden Horror. A Cursed Claim.

In a world where promises shatter easily, a woman grapples with her heart’s yearnings and the unyielding demands of the law. Shadows become the stage for justice as an avenger quietly rights the unpunished wrongs. A harrowing truth unravels from a hidden research enclave, sending ripples through the halls of governance. A man’s life unravels, ensnared by deceit and false accusations. And from the whispers of history, a formidable spirit seeks to intertwine with the living, merging the present with echoes of a haunting legacy. Each narrative weaves a tapestry of intrigue, where the stakes are as high as the price of truth.

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Forbidden Love, Dark Bargains & Witching Hour Terror—Scribbler Tales Vol. One by Mary Ann Bernal, Narrated by Roberto Scarlato

 

Scribbler Tales (Volume One)

By: Mary Ann Bernal

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 1 hr and 29 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 11-18-14

Language: English

 A Cloning Catastrophe. A Haunted Challenge. A Feared Reckoning.

In a world where science pushes the boundaries of ethics, a woman’s trust shatters as she uncovers a cloning experiment’s catastrophic failure. Two souls brave the wrath of an ancient witch’s coven in the shadows of an accursed graveyard. Defiance fuels a man’s heart, challenging the iron will of his family to claim a love deemed forbidden. A desperate soul bargains with darkness, sealing a fate intertwined with survival. Echoes of a military upbringing haunt a lone figure as memories of a transient childhood resurface. Each story, rich with pivotal choices, weaves a complex tapestry of human experience, where every decision casts long shadows over their destinies.

 

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Book Spotlight: Beheld: Godiva's Story By Christopher M. Cevasco

 

A darkly twisted psychological thriller exploring the legend of Lady Godiva’s naked ride.

Having survived a grave illness to become one of 11th-century England’s wealthiest landowners, Godgyfu of Coventry (Lady Godiva) remains forever grateful to the town whose patron saint worked such miracles. She vows to rebuild Coventry’s abbey and better the lives of its townsfolk. But the wider kingdom is descending into political turmoil, and her husband, Earl Leofric, starts to break under the strain. Godgyfu finds her own plans unravelling the moment she meets Thomas, a Benedictine novice with perverse secret desires. Three lives become dangerously entangled in a shocking web of ambition, voyeuristic lust, and horrid obsession. Can Godgyfu escape the monk’s menacing wiles and Leofric’s betrayals to secure her future in a changing kingdom? Perhaps, but first, she faces a dark test of wills leading her perilously closer to a legendary ride...

Trigger Warnings:

Sexual situations, psychological abuse, violence, brief references to suicide.

 

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 Christopher M. Cevasco

Christopher M. Cevasco was born in New Jersey and spent a memorable decade in Brooklyn, New York, but he feels most at home in medieval England, Normandy, Norway, and Greenland. A lifelong passion for history and fiction led him to earn degrees in Medieval Studies and English and later to embark upon a writing career that merges these two loves.

Chris was the founding editor of the award-winning Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction from 2003 to 2009. His own short stories appear in such venues as Black Static, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Distant Echoes (Corazon Books, UK), and the Prime Books anthologies Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War and Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages.

A long-time member of the Historical Novel Society, Chris currently serves on the society's North American conference board as registration chair for the upcoming 2023 conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Chris lives with his wife and their two children in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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