Adrian Gorrissen is a Canadian author and actor writing supernatural thrillers about places built for audiences. His four novels move through condemned theatres, ghost-lit stages and darkened cinemas. In The Prompt Book, a century-old production record begins writing back—turning stage directions into reality and erasing anyone whose name is crossed out. Explore haunted spaces, buried performances and stories that refuse to end.
Behind the stories
Adrian’s supernatural thrillers grow from first-hand experience in the theatre. As an actor, he knows the rituals, superstitions and charged silences that live behind the curtain.
That perspective shapes stories where theatres and cinemas become active presences—preserving old performances, buried secrets and the people who refuse to leave. The result is atmospheric suspense grounded in authentic backstage detail.
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Explore The Bellamy →Behind the coverA condemned theatre rewrites its history—and draws one actor into the performance it never finished.Explore the story →When a haunted theatre begins rewriting its own history, an actor is drawn into the Bellamy's buried secrets—where every performance leaves a trace, and the house may be waiting for its final audience.
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Explore The Ghost Light →Behind the coverA ghost light burns again as forgotten performances return and the theatre demands to be remembered.Explore the 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.
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Explore The Last Matinee →Behind the coverOne final matinee awakens a buried performance in a theatre preparing to close forever.Explore the story →At a theatre marked for closure, one final performance awakens the past. The last matinee may be the only chance to escape a story that has been waiting in the dark.
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Explore The Prompt Book →Behind the coverA prompt book writes back, making stage directions real and erasing every crossed-out name.Explore the story →At Boston’s Bellwether Theatre, historian Mara Vale finds a century-old prompt book that writes back. Its stage directions become real, and every crossed-out name disappears from records, photographs and memory.
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