The Shadow keeper

The Shadow keeper: Gothic Haunting Tales from Somerset
By E.L. Ravenheart

Between the northern forests and the Somerset moors, ancient boundaries are failing.

In the deep woods of the Great Lakes, skeletal spirits hunt the arrogant. Shapeshifters guard what remains of the wild. Hunger transforms the soul with a single choice. Across the Atlantic, on mist-shrouded moorland where leylines pulse through peat, a barefoot girl walks for two centuries, keeping a covenant her family refused. At standing stones, trickster ravens teach threshold lessons. In dark pools, witnesses become bridges between worlds.

And in the concrete spaces we call safe-nursing homes, apartment complexes, locked rooms-older hungers wake and feed.

The Shadow Keeper weaves Indigenous Chippewa mythology with British gothic folklore into ten interconnected tales of transformation, sacrifice, and the terrible price of keeping balance. Drawing on ancestral storytelling traditions and the haunted landscapes of Somerset, E.L. Ravenheart crafts atmospheric horror where memory carries power, shadows have intent, and every doorway leads somewhere unexpected.

The boundaries are thin. The keepers are tired. And hunger never sleeps.

The opening collection in the Powers of St. Katherine's House cycle.