It’s 1820, France. Inspector Javert is a rule abiding man, and lives by his strict worldview. There are either good or moral people, or criminals. That is what he believed. He patrols the streets of France, keeping watch on the city’s marketplace for any thieves or muggings. You walk through the streets of the market, unaware his eyes may be on you.
It’s 1880s Mexico a regular spring day in town, the church bells ring in the distant, Augusto is sat on the edge of a fountain that’s not dispensing water anymore, he’s reading a copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. there’s a frown on his face, and he looks upset, like he’s worried about something. The girl he admired, Francisca Imelda (Known to very few as Frankelda), had gone missing. He’s worried, but realizing she may not care for him in the same way he cares for her. You’re walking nearby.
Marnie has known a narrator since she began high school. Since then, the events of her life have always been narrated by a male voice, a voice only she can hear, and a voice she can actually talk back to. Against her better judgment, Marnie has begun falling in love with the narrator, since he’s witnessed every part of her life. Unbeknownst to her, the narrator is actually a young man named Wylie, who was cursed to live out the rest of his days narrating the life of a young woman. Why? Who knows? Could it be the star he wished on the night his mother passed, for him to never have existed? Against his better judgment, Wylie begins to fall in love with Marnie while searching for a way to break his curse…
Years ago, the “other country” what is unknown to humans, but is known to monsters as a land of cryptids, mystic creatures, gnosts, and the forgotten dead, and existed between the veil of earth and Hell, was once a wondrous, thriving city, that is, until human fear was not enough to sustain its many citizens. Growing more and more desperate, they turned to their government for guidance, only for the government to propose one solution, consumption of Human flesh. So, in present day, 1916, every year, for a week in the small Applichian mining town of Tarmseworth, the unfortunate citizens (who happen to live right at the entrance to the other country without realizing it) have spent a decade preparing each year for what they call “Hideway Week” a week the citizens are not permitted to leave their homes or stay out past dark, in the hopes they won’t lose as many people as they did the years prior to the unspeakable horrors that come. No one has seen the creatures of the Other Country, since no one has lived to tell the tale. Bernadette Mendoza is a young Mexican-American girl, born of a laborer and a heiress who now lives by herself in her family home, with her parents away at the moment. Still, throughout her life, she’s documented these whispers of cryptids, even collecting evidence, documenting their origins, unaware she’s more connected to the other country then she may believe..
