The Archive of Sin and VirtueBook One in The Archive of Echoes Series
“Each relic hums with the echoes of what we were—and what we still might be.”
In a forgotten vault lit only by flickering candlelight, The Collector opens a cabinet and awakens the stories within. Each artifact—tarnished, bloodstained, or broken—reveals a tale of human nature twisted by morality.
From the bleak streets of Victorian London to the glamour of the Roaring Twenties, from post-war sorrow to modern decay, these fourteen gothic short stories explore the eternal struggle between sin and virtue.
A proud man’s rise and fall. A humble soul’s descent into madness. A murderer seeking temperance through blood. A mother’s “kindness” that feeds the hungry the dead. Each story balances on the knife-edge of right and wrong—until both become the same.
Through lavish gothic horror and psychological terror, The Archive of Sin and Virtue examines the fine line between redemption and ruin.
But who is The Collector? An archivist of humanity? A ghost preserving its worst memories? Or something else entirely—watching, waiting, collecting?
Perfect for readers who
Gothic and psychological horrorDark short story collections and anthologies
Moral fables turned macabre
Victorian, historical, and modern horror atmospheres
Authors like Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Neil Gaiman