When Your Shadow Knocks

Christmas Eve in the snowbound Cyprus village of Kalotihos.
A doctor searching for closure... A gifted boy who counts the unseen... A missing bride... A once famous Rock Band that swore never to play there again. But when the lights die, other things rise. Their shadows start to remember your face. Your sins. And once they do — they never forget.

“I’ve decided to assemble these accounts in the third person. Through many voices. One of those voices is mine but I won’t say which yet. When it matters, I’ll tell you whose eyes we wear. It is the only way to tell a story that was never lived by one person alone. My publisher hates this. He says it lacks a clear point of view. But I am not trying to write a good book. I am just trying to stop the story from devouring what’s left of me.” 

Adonis thought leaving Cyprus and Kalotihos behind would bury the past. Years later, his fading Rock Band “Father’s Heresy” is lured back to the Troodos Mountains to record one last album and to play a wedding in the same cursed village he once escaped.

The mountain remembers its own. It calls back others too: Andreas, a London doctor chasing closure, his gifted brother chasing patterns, and the band chasing one final echo of glory. The celebration becomes a doorway. Shadows learn to remember the faces of their prey; grief and guilt shape their disguise.

As friends vanish and memories bleed like ink, a witness with fractured recollections stitches together fragmentary truths—notes, prayers, and a ledger of old sins. Time tightens; the veil thins with the winter moons, and the Kalikantzaroi’s appetite grows with each stolen memory.
Who can be trusted when evil can adopt the shape of both the living and the dead?
The only way to stop what remembers you is to tell the story that would otherwise devour you.
When Your Shadow Knocks begins as a murmur of grief and guilt and rises into a storm—an unrelenting descent from slow-burn dread to revelation, where faith and family secrets collide.

A folk-horror novel steeped in Cypriot winter rites, re-imagined folklore and the demons of music and memory. Written for readers who crave character-first horror with depth. The intimate voice, immersive atmosphere and psychological twists will turn the pages for you…

If you liked Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, the elegiac terror of The Fisherman, and the cultural gothic of Mexican Gothicand The Ritual, then you are surely a candidate to travel to Kalotihos this Christmas. Dare you?

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