Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Dead People Association

Some time ago I heard about problems people experience when their identity is erased by the government because the government has somehow learned that the person is no longer alive. In everyday life this causes enormous problems. Problems that are not solved quickly... 

A support organization has even been founded for fellow sufferers: the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People. I used that information as a basis and (after changing the organization's name) made the problem of people who are declared dead against their will even more annoying… 

Curious about this new horror series? From the start date, book 1 will be published on REAM in weekly installments). REAM is a platform where you can “read along while writing”. Authors publish one or more chapters weekly or monthly. DPA book 1 “ Revelation ”, deliberately will start on Friday the 13th (February) and will be finished a month later on Friday the 13th (March). On the same platform, you (as a subscriber) can also read all my short and ultra-short stories. Note: Flash Fiction stories are available exclusively through my own channels: my webshop and REAM. (Okay, and also in anthologies in the “Vinyed" series.)

Prefer to wait until the story is finished? "Revelation" will be available for purchase through all major retailers starting March 13th.

For the covers of this series, I'm using photos by Anton Osinga. He takes beautiful, and for me, very inspiring, photos of abandoned places.


Synopsis, Book 1 “ Revelation ”:

Jordan Nash is a bon vivant par excellence.
Or actually: was a bon vivant.
When he is officially declared dead by the authorities, his life turns into a nightmare.

Determined to prove his existence, he stumbles upon the mysterious Dead People Association. A club where people like Jordan, who have been erased from government records, gather. Or… so he thought.

Because not everyone in the group turns out to be alive. Some are ghosts, trapped between two worlds, desperately seeking passage to the afterlife. These are the ones Jordan can still live with...

But those others… The others are apparitions that have clung to the land of the living in sinister ways, sometimes for centuries. They will stop at nothing to force Jordan to help them stay here.

As Jordan balances on the edge of two worlds, he discovers that some boundaries cannot be crossed without danger.

Do you dare to follow him into the shadow world of twilight death?