
Launch transmission / 04.09.2026
The Static Bride
A waterlogged VHS tape records a wedding that hasn't happened yet.Mara Wren is the bride.
Occult horror · Gothic supernatural · Analog horror
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An occult horror novel · Out now
Psychological · Cosmic · Unseen
Reality is only
the first draft.
Richard Pidwell writes psychological horror that makes reality itself feel unsafe.
Stories from the thin line between sanity and delusion, where ordinary lives unravel under unseen forces.


Stories for the hours when certainty fails.
01 / The work
Fear with an afterimage
The familiar, made
impossible.
These are stories about the instant a dependable world slips half an inch out of alignment. A sentence changes. A system grants permission. The sky reveals a pattern that was never meant to be seen.
Across psychological horror, cosmic dread, and speculative thrillers, Richard Pidwell turns ordinary pressure points into doors—and asks what might already be waiting on the other side.
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The Grammar of Attention
Some books are written. This one writes back.
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The Static Bride
Every promise leaves a signal.
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Coming 01.10.2026
Every conversation has another version.
The Neighbour's Silence
A British psychological thriller about memory, mistrust, and the dangerous gap between what was said and what was heard.
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