"The series features an HBO-level of graphic content (so it's not for young readers) and bends genres and genre expectations. If you're a fan of psychological horror, this unique music and prose blend might be right up your alley. Just... be careful of those shadows."
--Alana Joli Abott, DenofGeek.com, The Best Serial Fiction You Should Be Reading
--Alana Joli Abott, DenofGeek.com, The Best Serial Fiction You Should Be Reading
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Dark Heights is a serial novel with music. It is free to read, with new chapters updated online monthly.
Dark Heights follows many characters in a complex, genre-hopping story that invokes the surreal melodrama of Twin Peaks and Donnie Darko while hitting hard with the magical horror of Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman. Every chapter is scored with original music from composer and performer Chris Miller. In fact, the music and the story are collaboratively created and inseparable--and don't worry, if the music interrupts your reading, it's supposed to. How you approach the fiction and the music is entirely up to you. Dark Heights was created and is written by C.D. Miller. |
I am proud to announce the return of Dark Heights, Part Two.
We’ve been on hiatus for the better part of 2018 while Chris Miller has been recovering from the bicycle accident in which he broke both his arms. It’s great news: he’s back at the keyboard and has already composed, performed, and recorded the music for Part Two, Chapter 2. The story of Dark Heights can now continue.
We are applying some finishing touches to this next chapter and to a few of the chapters beyond. You may well be asking, Hey C.D. Miller, didn’t you write the entirety of Part Two while Chris was waving his arms around in physiotherapy? The answer is no, I did not. We decided not to proceed with the creative process until Chris was back at full strength, since our collaboration has become almost as important to us as the content itself—it was inconceivable to me, at least, to go ahead without Chris’s genius-level musical elaboration of the fictive world and the characters’ emotional tribulations.
Chris and I are elated that we’re able to return to Dark Heights. We have quite a lot of the story remaining to tell, and we left a few of our characters in some strange, dire circumstances at the end of Part One. For a recap of all that happened, go to the Part One Synopsis.
So it’s time.
Dark Heights Chapter 2,2.
Coming soon.
--C.D. Miller
We’ve been on hiatus for the better part of 2018 while Chris Miller has been recovering from the bicycle accident in which he broke both his arms. It’s great news: he’s back at the keyboard and has already composed, performed, and recorded the music for Part Two, Chapter 2. The story of Dark Heights can now continue.
We are applying some finishing touches to this next chapter and to a few of the chapters beyond. You may well be asking, Hey C.D. Miller, didn’t you write the entirety of Part Two while Chris was waving his arms around in physiotherapy? The answer is no, I did not. We decided not to proceed with the creative process until Chris was back at full strength, since our collaboration has become almost as important to us as the content itself—it was inconceivable to me, at least, to go ahead without Chris’s genius-level musical elaboration of the fictive world and the characters’ emotional tribulations.
Chris and I are elated that we’re able to return to Dark Heights. We have quite a lot of the story remaining to tell, and we left a few of our characters in some strange, dire circumstances at the end of Part One. For a recap of all that happened, go to the Part One Synopsis.
So it’s time.
Dark Heights Chapter 2,2.
Coming soon.
--C.D. Miller
Linna Severand
Dark Heights is meant for Mature Audiences only. Please be advised of strong adult content throughout.
For the full Dark Heights experience put your phone down, open your laptop, slip on your expensive headphones or turn up your speakers. If you absolutely must read this on your phone or tablet, make sure you press Play on the Audio track for each Chapter before reading. The music is mandatory.
For the full Dark Heights experience put your phone down, open your laptop, slip on your expensive headphones or turn up your speakers. If you absolutely must read this on your phone or tablet, make sure you press Play on the Audio track for each Chapter before reading. The music is mandatory.
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Tess Bellamy
Portraits of Tess and Linna by Roosdy Fisher |
"And it starts to rain hard again. As if I asked for it. A deluge. Soaking me down, washing the blood from my arms, from my face. I gather my hair and twist it tight and black water wrings out from it.
The rain is everything. I lift my hands up into it. Let it scour out all the parts of me that make up what’s wrong with me. Now. Back to yourself, Tess. You saw something at the gas station. What is it. There it is, yes, a pay phone. Go to the car. There are two quarters in the ashtray below the dashboard. Make a call. Call for help." --from Part One, Chapter 5 |