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Only Jack Knows: Origins to Angels: Behind the Confession Files
They arrive alive. They always leave dead.
But before they go, they tell me everything.
My name’s Jack Steen, night nurse in an asylum for the criminally insane—where mercy is optional, and every secret comes with a pulse that’s fading fast. My job isn’t to save them. It’s to listen.
For years, I’ve recorded their deathbed confessions in the dead of night, one story at a time. What began as whispers caught on tape has now been transcribed—unedited, unfiltered, raw. These aren’t stories meant to be read so much as listened to, in the quiet hours when even your own heartbeat sounds too loud.
With that in mind, they read as they would for a podcast episode, complete with notes meant for the narrator. Since this was fully intended as an audio book only, please note, the text itself has not been seen by a professional editor.
Inside these pages are four of the confessions that still haunt
Origins and Death – how it all began, and the inmate whose final words changed everything.
The Dying Kind – a man who proved love can kill faster than hate.
A Killer Recipe – a baker who folded murder into his pastries and devotion into his lies.
The Angel Maker – a nurse who claimed she only offered mercy… until her own sins came calling.
This is the world I live in—one where the walls listen, the dying speak, and silence is never what it seems.
Only Jack Origins to Angels — Notes from the Night Nurse.
Originally told in whispers. Now preserved in print. Listen with your eyes.
But before they go, they tell me everything.
My name’s Jack Steen, night nurse in an asylum for the criminally insane—where mercy is optional, and every secret comes with a pulse that’s fading fast. My job isn’t to save them. It’s to listen.
For years, I’ve recorded their deathbed confessions in the dead of night, one story at a time. What began as whispers caught on tape has now been transcribed—unedited, unfiltered, raw. These aren’t stories meant to be read so much as listened to, in the quiet hours when even your own heartbeat sounds too loud.
With that in mind, they read as they would for a podcast episode, complete with notes meant for the narrator. Since this was fully intended as an audio book only, please note, the text itself has not been seen by a professional editor.
Inside these pages are four of the confessions that still haunt
Origins and Death – how it all began, and the inmate whose final words changed everything.
The Dying Kind – a man who proved love can kill faster than hate.
A Killer Recipe – a baker who folded murder into his pastries and devotion into his lies.
The Angel Maker – a nurse who claimed she only offered mercy… until her own sins came calling.
This is the world I live in—one where the walls listen, the dying speak, and silence is never what it seems.
Only Jack Origins to Angels — Notes from the Night Nurse.
Originally told in whispers. Now preserved in print. Listen with your eyes.
131 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 7, 2025
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January 14, 2026
This was such a good idea for the series, finding out about how Jack first started collecting these stories was so interesting. These stories are a lot shorter which is why they’re not in the other books.
Newman:
I hated this man the second I found out why he was in the asylum, and I hated him even more when he tried to justify it and said he was “collecting” fear. He didn’t deserve a painless death but, since that’s the deal it’s what he got. Newman was a vile man and it’s no shock as to why the warden restricted his meds and abused his power.
Jack:
The man himself nearly got killed because someone hired a hit man to get rid of him and the reason why was very anti-climactic so that was disappointing.
Madison:
A man with anger issues basically, no control over his emotions and snaps to rage pretty much immediately. The reason he ended up in the asylum? I get it, it doesn’t justify his actions or justify that he murdered someone, but I guess he followed that eye for an eye saying, I understand why he snapped, he just dealt with it in the wrong way.
Clyde:
A killer baker, he didn’t seem all that remorseful, in fact there wasn’t much emotion during the baking and poisoning at all, almost like it was clockwork. Some of his targets I kind of get, again it’s not justified, but I see why he was told to poison them.
The angel maker:
A nurse that spends 50 years helping people pass away, people that are on deaths door, or people that are in so much pain that death would be better but it’s not her job or choice to make, she doesn’t see it as killing, she sees it as helping.
Newman:
I hated this man the second I found out why he was in the asylum, and I hated him even more when he tried to justify it and said he was “collecting” fear. He didn’t deserve a painless death but, since that’s the deal it’s what he got. Newman was a vile man and it’s no shock as to why the warden restricted his meds and abused his power.
Jack:
The man himself nearly got killed because someone hired a hit man to get rid of him and the reason why was very anti-climactic so that was disappointing.
Madison:
A man with anger issues basically, no control over his emotions and snaps to rage pretty much immediately. The reason he ended up in the asylum? I get it, it doesn’t justify his actions or justify that he murdered someone, but I guess he followed that eye for an eye saying, I understand why he snapped, he just dealt with it in the wrong way.
Clyde:
A killer baker, he didn’t seem all that remorseful, in fact there wasn’t much emotion during the baking and poisoning at all, almost like it was clockwork. Some of his targets I kind of get, again it’s not justified, but I see why he was told to poison them.
The angel maker:
A nurse that spends 50 years helping people pass away, people that are on deaths door, or people that are in so much pain that death would be better but it’s not her job or choice to make, she doesn’t see it as killing, she sees it as helping.
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February 3, 2026
A great read
I know this was supposed to be an audio book but it was still so good. I actually wish there was more to this book but I'll wait until another is published. A great book.
I know this was supposed to be an audio book but it was still so good. I actually wish there was more to this book but I'll wait until another is published. A great book.
November 9, 2025
Brilliant, as always! Not as meaty as the confession's series, but that is to be expected of this format.
December 5, 2025
Pretty good for a quick read. Read it in one sitting.
December 18, 2025
Not as great as the other books but still enjoyable. I know it was supposed to be a podcast or whatever but the commentary threw me off to where I just skipped it all together
January 7, 2026
He never disappoints!!!
December 23, 2025
Awesome
This book is so good! The stories kept my attention the whole time. Jack made you feel as if you were right beside him listening to the patients.i have really enjoyed all of the asylum books.
This book is so good! The stories kept my attention the whole time. Jack made you feel as if you were right beside him listening to the patients.i have really enjoyed all of the asylum books.
October 28, 2025
Jack Steen, I absolutely love you and your books — there’s nothing you could write that I wouldn’t read. This one is an easy five stars. I really enjoyed learning your origin story; it ties everything together and adds so much depth to the world you’ve built throughout the series. I highly recommend reading or listening to this one to fully appreciate where Jack Steen’s story begins.
October 20, 2025
Erm yes please another confessions series, related to the original Asylum Confessions books?! Count me in BIG TIME!
This book is full of confessions that didn't make the cut in the original series, so he decided to make it a series on its own. Full of the dark, twisted and the needy. We learn how Jack came to be and we start off with the first ever confession, the one that's started it all, the one that was almost never.
The first chapter had me reeling!
We have a few confessions in this book, such as:
* Confession One: Newman "The Collector"
* Confession Two: That time there was a hit out on my life.
* Confession Three: The Dying Kind
* Confession Four: The Sweetest Revenge
* Confession Five: The Angel Maker
I absolutely love that we get an inside of Jack on this series, we get snippets here and there in the original series but in this one we get more and it's like we are seeing it first hand!
This book is full of confessions that didn't make the cut in the original series, so he decided to make it a series on its own. Full of the dark, twisted and the needy. We learn how Jack came to be and we start off with the first ever confession, the one that's started it all, the one that was almost never.
The first chapter had me reeling!
We have a few confessions in this book, such as:
* Confession One: Newman "The Collector"
* Confession Two: That time there was a hit out on my life.
* Confession Three: The Dying Kind
* Confession Four: The Sweetest Revenge
* Confession Five: The Angel Maker
I absolutely love that we get an inside of Jack on this series, we get snippets here and there in the original series but in this one we get more and it's like we are seeing it first hand!
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