The Mourner

I am painfully beautiful, pale, and cold. My features resemble people’s—this is how they look when they die. My eyelids are wet, as if swollen with tears, and the corners of my lips point downward. I’m not sad. It’s just that my face is always like this. That’s why people call me the Mourner.

But it’s me who makes others cry…

“The Mourner” is a new collection of thirteen terrifying and captivating stories by horror writer Vlad Raiber.