About The Witching Hour:
The Marydel State Penitentiary was shut down in 1982 and by then it had already swallowed the lives of over one thousand people. Some went by way of the noose; others went by more personal means.
Since its closure, and aided by the rise of the internet, the penitentiary and its list of popular prisoners become the center of many conspiracies. It all started four years ago, when a retired security guard took to the web to share stories from working at the prison. An old man’s second-rate creepypasta soon turned an ordinary prison into a proposed portal to the afterlife.
Over the following months and years, dozens of stories emerged with people claiming they saw someone moving in the infirmary or heard voices coming from the long-abandoned cell block. However, whether by coincidence or copycatting, the sightings had one thing in common: they all occurred at three in the morning; known as the witching hour.
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Author Bio:
Sri Kandula is an Indian-born American writer and director. He fell in love with storytelling at a young age, being an avid reader and gigantic film buff. This passion led him to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Film-Video. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with that degree in 2019. His debut novella, titled Nightmare from the Deep, is a horror mystery about four teenagers facing their fears in a town being terrorized by a series of grisly murders. He has also written and directed Road to No End, The Virtues of Solitude, an Official Selection of the 2019 Rough Cut Film Festival, and the crowdfunded post-apocalyptic short film, What Remains. When he’s not telling stories, he’s most likely watching movies, playing video games, or drawing.