COMING SOON
At Massachusetts’ infamous prison facility, Cedar Junction, Correction Officer Jonas Christensen is already watching his life collapse—his marriage shattered, his father disgraced and imprisoned by the very system they once served. But when a mysterious inmate appears in a supposedly empty cell with no intake file, no history, and knowledge he should not possess, the prison itself begins to feel less like an institution and more like something alive. Blending Gothic atmosphere,
psychological tension, and moral horror, Between Bars is a haunting descent into guilt, corruption, and the terrible things hidden behind walls built to contain the condemned.
Published Works
Beneath the silence of a remote monastery, something sacred has been disturbed. When subtle fractures begin appearing within the rhythm of prayer—smoke that will not rise, sweetness that vanishes from the altar, a relic touched by unseen hands—the brothers sense that something hidden has entered their sacred order. Quietly haunting and steeped in Gothic atmosphere, Under the Stone is a literary tale of conscience, spiritual longing, and the terrible weight of possessing what was never meant to belong to us.
We Are Many is a Gothic psychological horror story about grief, memory, and the terrifying realization that some voices do not remain buried. When a series of mysterious Valentine notes begin appearing under impossible circumstances, a quiet unraveling begins—one that blurs the line between haunting and obsession. Atmospheric, unsettling, and morally charged, We Are Many explores what happens when loneliness becomes something that answers back.
Inside a quiet little shop hidden on the town commons, a young baseball card collector is offered the one thing he cannot stop thinking about. But every visit to The Collector’s Nook pulls him deeper into a world where desire quietly reshapes conscience, and value is measured by what a person is willing to surrender. Atmospheric, unsettling, and morally haunting, The Collector explores the slow corruption of innocence through obsession, possession, and the terrible hunger to own what should never belong to us.
A man is assigned the night shift in an aging seminary slated for renovation—a place long stripped of its sacred objects, reduced to corridors, checklists, and routine.
Elias Ward arrives with a system: log the hours, check the locks, move through the building with measured precision. If everything can be accounted for, then nothing has to be faced. But the night does not remain procedural. A sweetness lingers where nothing should burn. Doors refuse their records. Corridors extend beyond their plans. And somewhere between the hours—unmarked, unannounced—the building keeps its own account. What starts as routine becomes a summons. What is logged as handled refuses to close. And as the night deepens, Elias is drawn toward a reckoning not of what he has seen—but of what he has refused to witness.
Because some watches are not kept by movement.They are kept by presence. And some hours, once missed, do not return.
About the Author
Warner Smith is a New England-based fiction writer, theologian, and chaplain whose work lives at the intersection of theology and story. Writing through a Gothic lens, his fiction explores the unseen consequences of ordinary desire — quiet dread, private bargains, and the metaphysical weight of small human choices.
Before theological study, Smith served ten years as a Correction Officer with the Massachusetts Department of Correction, a formation that shaped his unflinching attention to consequence, power, and the hidden costs of survival. He now serves as a chaplain and biblical counselor, walking alongside people navigating addiction, grief, and despair.
Smith holds an M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is completing a Th.M. at Hellenic College Holy Cross. An Orthodox Christian, he publishes The Moral Imagination, a literary journal devoted to serious craft and Christian moral vision.
