Sorken

Erik lives as a digital hermit. He only leaves the sterile safety of his home to photograph his surroundings, searching for stillness, structure, and beauty in nature's irregular patterns. But one photo of an overgrown monastery ruin captures something he can't explain. Something that seems to be watching him. Something moving in the shadows, beneath moss, beneath earth, beneath the surface of memory. The deeper Erik delves into the image, the stronger the feeling grows: he is not alone. Not in the ruin. Not in the house. Not even in his own mind. Told in two parallel timelines, one present-day, the other from a child's nightmarish upbringing, Sorken is a psychological thriller drenched in trauma, horror, and silence. A slow descent into inherited secrets, ritualistic evil, and the things that must never be spoken aloud. This is a story about the scars we hide, the rituals we survive, and the vile things that grow in silence. For readers of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hereditary, and Sharp Objects.