Josh White

Have You Heard Her Call
Have You Heard Her Call? is a collection of four interconnected horror novellas, each exploring the unsettling influence of Velum Obscurum. Those who read it find themselves haunted by the call of a woman made of living darkness. But is she real? Or just the desperate creation of women yearning for something more?
“Heterochromia” — Elizabeth is stuck in a cycle of dissatisfaction until a strange woman in a dark alleyway gives her a life-changing gift.
“Static Lines” — Eighties-obsessed Thuraya basks in the glow of her idealized engagement. But when her fiancé starts acting strangely, cracks form in her perfect life—and the uncanny slips through.
“Epta” — When teenage runaway Natalie completes a strange ritual, she doesn’t expect it to work. But in a remote cabin, the past and future whisper to her through the walls…
“Imposters” — Adam, a grieving widower, follows a woman identical to his late wife to a town drowned in endless rain—where reality begins to unravel.
From the author of Phantasmagoria, Have You Heard Her Call?blends psychological and uncanny horror with weird fiction to tell tales of women on the edge of despair, revelation, and of something far beyond their understanding. They hear her call. But does it promise salvation…or something else entirely?

Phantasmagoria
A slow burn psychological horror novel, Josh White’s Phantasmagoria tells the story of Anna, Miguel, Corentine, and Stephen—four sufferers of terrifying sleeping disorders who find themselves at a remote wellness retreat. But Aeron Hall, a bloodcurdling mansion nestled in the mountains of old coal country, is an unusual location to gather the sleep deprived. From the stained glass windows that watch the patients like eyes to the harrowing wail erupting from the caverns underneath, the mansion is chiseled from the essence of nightmares.
Then new, increasingly personal horrors begin. Thunderous knocks erupt from bedroom mirrors. A statue moves in the moonlight. Mattresses ooze blood. Threatening messages are scrawled on paintings. Shadowy figures beckon and unleash tormented screams in the night. Is a sinister presence demanding penance for the patients’ sins, or is the house playing tricks on their exhausted minds?
Combining the surrealism of Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It with the tortured psychological horror of Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left, Phantasmagoria offers a haunting exploration of loss, grief, and atonement told through the alternating point-of-views of the novel’s four main characters. The novel questions the nature of hauntings and poses that houses—no matter how horrific their past—can never truly be as haunted as people.
