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Some Can See: A Northern Michigan Asylum Novel

by J. R. Erickson

Ghosts across generations in Northern Michigan

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Ghosts across generations in Northern Michigan

J. R. Erickson’s horror novel links three moments in one family’s history: Sophia’s encounter with her friend’s ghost in 1935, Sophia’s confinement at the Northern Michigan Asylum twenty years later, and Hattie and Jude’s search for answers in 1965. A hidden newspaper connects the sisters’ investigation to their mother’s past, while the asylum’s doctor targets patients with paranormal abilities. The story brings together family secrets, a murder investigation, and supernatural encounters, with the asylum and its troubled history as a central thread.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in supernatural horror and ghost stories.
  • Readers who enjoy family mysteries spanning multiple periods.
  • Readers drawn to stories set in historical asylums.

Themes

Ghosts and the deadFamily secretsInstitutional abuseParanormal abilitiesIntergenerational history

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Book overview

The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening?

On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary's yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows.

In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary's body.

It was not Rosemary who led her there, but Rosemary's ghost.

Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane

Twenty years after Sophia discovers Rosemary's body, she finds herself trapped in the sprawling, and eerily beautiful, Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in the hands of a malevolent doctor who preys on patients who exhibit paranormal abilities.

Sometimes the dead don't rest

In present day 1965, Hattie, much like her mother, thirty years before, is led by a ghost. A newspaper hidden in an attic reveals a secret that has shaped the lives of Hattie and her siblings. Hattie with her sister, Jude, embark on a crusade to remedy the wrongs of the past and discover the tale of deception that stole their mother a decade before.

Hattie and Jude are in a race against time to discover a murderer and save their mother from a horrific fate.

Get lost in a uniquely chilling story that spans the life of a family and the ghosts who haunt them.

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