In the Dead of the Night (Cover + Table of Contents)

What happened before, can happen again... 🏚️ A serialized YA novel about ghostly happenings at an Adirondack summer camp.

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Author’s Note

I’ll be self-publishing In the Dead of the Night in late 2024. Until then, paying subscribers can read a serialized version of the novel here, helping to influence the final product by voting on cover art and select character names.

For the full history of this novel, see this post.
For those who want them, you can review content warnings here.

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Table of Contents

In the Dead of the Night will be serialized here on Substack, with five chapters dropping each week until the story is completed. If a chapter isn’t linked, it means it hasn’t been revealed yet. To make sure you don’t miss anything, become a subscriber.

• Chapter One

• Chapter Two

• Chapter Three

• Chapter Four

• Chapter Five

  • To read beyond this point, become a paying subscriber

• Chapter Six

• Chapter Seven

• Chapter Eight

• Chapter Nine

• Chapter Ten

• Chapter Eleven

• Chapter Twelve

• Chapter Thirteen

• Chapter Fourteen

• Chapter Fifteen

• Chapter Sixteen

• Chapter Seventeen

• Chapter Eighteen

• Chapter Nineteen

• Chapter Twenty

• Chapter Twenty-One

• Chapter Twenty-Two

• Chapter Twenty-Three

• Chapter Twenty-Four

• Chapter Twenty-Five

• Chapter Twenty-Six

• Chapter Twenty-Seven

• Chapter Twenty-Eight

• Chapter Twenty-Nine

• Chapter Thirty

• Chapter Thirty-One

• Chapter Thirty-Two

• Chapter Thirty-Three

• Chapter Thirty-Four

• Chapter Thirty-Five

• Chapter Thirty-Six

• Chapter Thirty-Seven

• Chapter Thirty-Eight

• Chapter Thirty-Nine

• Chapter Forty

• Chapter Forty-One

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About the novel:

It’s no secret that the abandoned estate across the lake from Camp Durant is haunted. For decades, campers and staff alike have whispered about the girl who haunts the property—how she was possessed by something unearthly and how an exorcism gone wrong caused her untimely death—but seventeen-year-old Eleanor Bradley dismisses these stories as exaggerated local legends. That is, until Nell sneaks into the estate with some fellow camp counselors and spots a flickering figure in one of the mirrors, its hair dripping with blood.

Convinced the ghost is trying to speak to her, Nell digs for answers. But the lines between interest and obsession, real and imagined, quickly blur. Nell sees things in mirrors that aren’t there. Finds blood on her hands that isn’t hers. Uncovers things that later vanish—like the body behind the estate, buried in a shallow grave. None of it seems possible, unless what happened to the possessed girl all those years ago is happening again—this time, to Nell…

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In the Dead of the Night © 2024 by Erin Bowman

Cover Design by Erin Bowman
Photography by Paul Pastourmatzis (landscape), Ján Jakub Naništa (house), and Kalen Emsley (dock)