Aberration
They say photographs can capture souls, Rachel Hannigan's latest photo has caught something worse.
Nicholas J Ripley’s First Standalone Horror Novel
Don’t Look At The Red
Rachel Hannigan is a professional photographer for fashion models in Los Angeles. She has her own studio in Burbank, California and is fairly successful in her field. However, her latest photo is quite unlike her usual. After witnessing a fatal accident, she gets the strange compulsion to take a photo of one of the victims.
Soon after, while on vacation in Hawaii, strange events begin happening. Ones that Rachel can't ignore . . . and they seem related to the photo she took. As the horrors begin to escalate, Rachel is forced to face a difficult question: is something otherworldly actually hunting her or has she finally lost her grip on sanity?
“ Not just the skin but most of the muscle, tissue and somehow the eyes too. It was just bloody bone. A crimson skull staring back at me. I remember asking myself how the hell did the eyes get scraped out? The holes where his eyes used to be were like a dark red abyss. One that my eyes seemed to sink into. I couldn’t look away. In a weird way, too I suppose, it felt like they were looking right back at me. The skull stared back and I couldn’t move my eyes from it, as horrible as it was. .”
— Aberration.