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A Shadow Rises: An In The Cards Short Story
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Expected 10 Jul 26Welcome to In The Cards, a multi author collection of standalone thriller and horror short stories. In this series, you’ll find stories inspired by the meaning of a specific Tarot Card, thoughtfully written with that thread woven through. Whether you’re a Tarot Card lover or not, you’ll find thrillers and horrors that will creep under your skin and into your thoughts. *Knowledge of Tarot Cards is not necessary to read or enjoy these stories.*
Can houses be bad?
Lee’s family was murdered, and he’s desperate for a new start. Everything seems to align when he sees an ad for a fixer-upper on Chapman Drive. His wife and son are in his head, begging him to go, to renovate it and create his legacy.
But something else is speaking to him, something that only gets louder the more time he spends at 392 Chapman Drive.
What secrets will the house reveal? What end will mark its new beginning?
How far will she go to get back in the spotlight? Where does the line between creativity and madness blur?
Make sure you come back and check out the other stories, because you never know what’s In The Cards.
Can houses be bad?
Lee’s family was murdered, and he’s desperate for a new start. Everything seems to align when he sees an ad for a fixer-upper on Chapman Drive. His wife and son are in his head, begging him to go, to renovate it and create his legacy.
But something else is speaking to him, something that only gets louder the more time he spends at 392 Chapman Drive.
What secrets will the house reveal? What end will mark its new beginning?
How far will she go to get back in the spotlight? Where does the line between creativity and madness blur?
Make sure you come back and check out the other stories, because you never know what’s In The Cards.
40 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication July 10, 2026
About the author
Erica Damon
24 books59 followersErica Damon is a writer, equestrian, and artist living in Western Massachusetts. Her compulsively creative nature has led to a collection of ‘what ifs?’ and that sense of wonder weaves its way into her fiction. She writes thriller and horror under her name, and equestrian romance under the pen name, Isla Ryder.
In any genre, her goal is to sweep the reader into her world, keeping it grounded enough in reality that the reader doesn’t question a moment of the action.
This is what she loves helping other authors with, as she has discovered that she enjoys reading books in the early stages even more than published ones and helping writers to spin their stories into something riveting as a developmental editor. If she’s not writing, she’s likely out riding horses while ideas swirl in the background.
In any genre, her goal is to sweep the reader into her world, keeping it grounded enough in reality that the reader doesn’t question a moment of the action.
This is what she loves helping other authors with, as she has discovered that she enjoys reading books in the early stages even more than published ones and helping writers to spin their stories into something riveting as a developmental editor. If she’s not writing, she’s likely out riding horses while ideas swirl in the background.
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May 21, 2026
“A Shadow Rises” by Erica Damon was such a creepy, suspenseful addition to the In The Cards short story collection! I definitely should not have read this one in bed. My heart was pounding by the end! Fast, eerie, and completely worth the read.
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