Nevine Essam

Frostwoven Puppets is the haunting fourth volume of the Midnight Relics Series, presenting five psychologically disturbing supernatural tales-each set in a cursed palace across a different country. In Greece, a silver needle stitches a woman backward through time, unraveling her age until she becomes a fetus woven from thread. In Ethiopia, basalt walls in a rock-hewn church steal a historian's voice-then his identity-before turning him into stone.
In the icy tunnels of Norway, a mountaineer meets a frozen sculpture of himself carved years before-moments before living the agony it already recorded. In Tunisia, ancient Roman salt mines come alive, inhaling through a geologist's lungs and turning her into a breathing salt statue. And in France, puppets beneath an abandoned theatre reshape adults into marionettes, preparing them for a show that never ends.
Atmospheric, unsettling, and rich with folklore-inspired dread-this book pushes the series further into global psychological horror, where each relic demands a sacrifice.