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Supernatural Theatre Thrillers by Adrian Gorrissen

Adrian Gorrissen is a Canadian author and actor writing supernatural theatre thrillers inspired by life backstage. Explore four novels of haunted theatres, eerie cinemas and a cursed prompt book. Choose a story, read its opening excerpt, and find the eBook, paperback or hardcover edition that suits you.

Behind the stories

From backstage to supernatural suspense

Adrian's experience as an actor gives his fiction a connection to life backstage. In these paranormal suspense novels, the places built for performance become part of the threat: a playhouse holds on to its past, a cinema refuses a final farewell, and a production record makes its instructions real.

Explore each book's synopsis and behind-the-book material, then read a genuine opening excerpt before choosing an edition.

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The collection

Supernatural Thriller Books by Adrian Gorrissen

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Four different hauntings

Choose your next read

Start with the setting or mystery that interests you. Each book page includes its own synopsis, behind-the-book material and opening excerpt.

  • The Bellamy

    A condemned theatre and a vanished actress with an unfinished performance.

  • The Ghost Light

    A forgotten playhouse, a ghost light and performances that return.

  • The Last Matinee

    A cinema's final screening, impossible film reels and a secret beneath the auditorium.

  • The Prompt Book

    A cursed prompt book whose stage directions become real and whose crossed-out names disappear.

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The Prompt Book supernatural theatre thriller book cover by Adrian Gorrissen

The Prompt Book

The book is directing the performance.

Cursed-object thriller

The Prompt Book is a cursed-object thriller about a century-old theatrical record found at a Boston auction. Historian Mara Vale follows it to the Bellwether Theatre, where stage directions become real and crossed-out names disappear from records, photographs and memory. With stage manager Owen Keene, she confronts a forgotten cast.

Published

eBookPaperbackHardcover
Paperback ISBN-13
9798177888095
Hardcover ISBN-13
9798177899831
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The Bellamy supernatural theatre thriller book cover by Adrian Gorrissen

The Bellamy

The house remembers.

Haunted theatre thriller

A haunted theatre thriller following filmmaker Lydia Vance and her crew into the long-condemned Bellamy Theatre. They arrive to document its past, but a vanished actress has an unfinished performance. As the building's history intrudes on the present, the crew must confront what this theatre still expects of its audience.

Published

eBookPaperbackHardcover
Paperback ISBN-13
9798190631203
Hardcover ISBN-13
9798190433265
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The Ghost Light supernatural theatre thriller book cover by Adrian Gorrissen

The Ghost Light

Keep the light burning.

Theatre ghost story

Behind the curtain of a forgotten playhouse, a single ghost light burns against the dark. As old performances return, the living must uncover what the theatre refuses to let go. This theatre ghost story turns a familiar backstage tradition into a source of paranormal suspense.

Published

eBookPaperbackHardcover
Paperback ISBN-13
9798190631913
Hardcover ISBN-13
9798190629040
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The Last Matinee supernatural cinema thriller book cover by Adrian Gorrissen

The Last Matinee

The show must end.

Supernatural cinema thriller

A supernatural cinema thriller set at the Orpheum's final screening. Reporter Nora Vale enters a cinema where impossible film reels and strange disappearances point to a secret beneath the auditorium. The Last Matinee brings paranormal suspense to a place built for audiences, where the final show may not be the end.

Published

eBookPaperbackHardcover
Paperback ISBN-13
9798190632552
Hardcover ISBN-13
9798190629651
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Before you choose

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Can I read an excerpt before buying?

Yes. The individual book pages include opening excerpts from the paperback editions. Choose a title below to start reading.

Which formats are available?

All four novels are available as eBook, paperback and hardcover. Open a book's details page for its edition-specific Amazon links and ISBN information.

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