The Locked Room and the Midnight

🕰️🚪 THE LOCKED ROOM AND THE MIDNIGHT 🚪🕰️
At midnight, the door opens.
At midnight, it remembers.

When graduate student Emily Rhys is invited to catalog the private library of reclusive historian Dr. Felix Ashcroft, she jumps at the chance. His estate, Harrowden House, is ancient, crumbling, and legendary among academic circles. But no one mentions Room 13—sealed for decades with rusted chains, a keyhole filled with wax, and a handwritten note across the door:
“Do not open. Midnight is watching.” 🔒📜🌕

Of course, Emily opens it.

Inside, she finds only dust, a shattered clock… and a mirror that doesn’t reflect what’s there.
The room is empty.
Until it isn’t.

🕯️ THE CLOCK CHIMES MIDNIGHT.
AND THEN TIME BREAKS.

Every night at 12:00 AM, the door opens again—whether she locks it or not. And something changes:
— The furniture rearranges.
— Her own handwriting appears in strange places.
— She wakes up wearing clothes she doesn’t remember putting on.
And in her dreams, someone else walks the halls of Harrowden House using her name. ⏳🩸👁️

Desperate to uncover the truth, Emily dives into Dr. Ashcroft’s journals, learning of a secret experiment on consciousness, time, and isolation—and how Room 13 was its epicenter.

Only eight people were ever inside.
Seven are missing.
The eighth? He left a message scratched into the mirror:
“Midnight isn't a time. It's a thing.”

🕷️ The Locked Room and the Midnight is a cerebral, slow-burning horror mystery where space bends, memory fades, and time bleeds into itself.
Perfect for fans of House of Leaves, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Night House—where opening the wrong door is more than a mistake… it’s a sentence.

You can leave the room.
But midnight follows. 🌑🔍🗝️