Widow's Point

Widow's Point Lighthouse has stood sealed and fenced off since 1988. Workers raised it in 1838, and three of them died doing so. Nearly two dozen more deaths followed on the site: murders, suicides, disappearances, a whole family killed, and a Hollywood starlet found dead on the grounds.

People who have lived in Harper's Cove for years call the place cursed. Thomas Livingston, who has written thirteen books on the supernatural, sees material for his next bestseller. He arranges to be locked inside for a weekend, alone, with no means of reaching anyone outside.

The book is horror, built around a haunted lighthouse and presented as a found-footage record of those few days. The setting never changes, which keeps the telling confined and close.

It is short and tense. The pressure rises as the barrier between the author and the lighthouse's dead wears thin, and Livingston has no one to call and no way out until the weekend ends.