The Glass That Took the Wrong Man | Historical Gothic Mystery
Full-color artwork for The Glass That Took the Wrong Man, a Lake Superior Gothic mystery from The Rafters Archives.
A Great Lakes Gothic mystery from The Rafters Archives.
Forty-three men went down. Forty-two bodies returned. Then someone knocked at Hattie Sorn’s door.
Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior. November 1857.
After the schooner Martha’s Wake sinks beneath the freezing lake with forty-three men aboard, Hattie Sorn turns her boardinghouse into a temporary morgue where families can identify their dead.
Then Silas Pike appears at her door—barefoot, dry, and very much alive.
He is wearing another dead man’s coat. Inside it is an ambrotype photograph fixed on blackened glass: an image of the ship’s crew whose faces, identities, and even count seem to change depending on who is looking.
Silas offers only one explanation:
“It took the wrong man.”
As grief, memory, and desire begin reshaping what the people of Eagle Harbor believe they have witnessed, Hattie must separate the living from the dead, ownership from identity, and recorded fact from the version of reality people most desperately want to be true.
The Glass That Took the Wrong Man is a restrained historical supernatural mystery about mourning, evidence, memory, and the terrible authority that comes with writing down a person’s name.
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Full-Color Graphic Novel
A fully illustrated graphic-novel edition of The Glass That Took the Wrong Man is currently in development! This expanded visual edition will bring the frozen shores of Lake Superior, the wreck of the Martha’s Wake, and the mystery inside the glass to life in full color.
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