
Added on August 3, 2026
A cursed book. A fractured mind. A town that can’t forget 1933.When The Black Book resurfaces in upstate New York, it doesn’t just guide—it takes hold. Those who touch its pages find luck, power… and a creeping madness that refuses to let go.For one reader, obsession turns personal. As the book’s influence spreads, reality begins to unravel. Dreams bleed into waking life. Forgotten history claws its way back through blood and memory. And the past demands to be paid for in the present.What Guides Us is a slow-burn psychological horror about haunted history, grief, and the terrifying idea that some stories don’t want to be read—they want to own you.Fans of Needful Things, The Haunting of Hill House, and Heart-Shaped Box will be drawn into a chilling descent where words have power, obsession has consequences, and no one escapes untouched.
Even if you've not read the first book of the series, you will still enjoy this book on its own compelling merits.Though I enjoyed it so much, I've gotten the first book to read as well later.Really like the variety of settings, characters and tales within tales all woven together.It's certainly a compelling and suspenseful page turner. I literally just read it straight through overnight.I'm certain you'll enjoy it and won't be able to put it down as well.Get yourself a copy & gift another a cop
The malevolent black book, introduced in the first installment of the Black Book series, returns here more insidious, more manipulative, and far more disturbing. This time it resurfaces in a struggling bookstore in a quiet upstate New York town, patiently waiting for the right combination of vulnerability, ambition, and desperation to advance its agenda.At the center of the story is Ed Rodrick, a weary bookstore owner trying to save both his business and his marriage. The book has been in his fa
What Guides Us is a darkly intelligent and atmospheric psychological thriller that blurs the boundaries between reality and madness. Dennis Joslyn crafts a story steeped in dread and history a cursed book that doesn’t just whisper but commands, twisting time and memory until truth itself feels like a fever dream.What’s most captivating is how the novel weaves supernatural horror with the weight of forgotten history the 1933 farmers’ strike resurfaces not just as a ghost of the past but as an ind
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