Death's Bloom Monsters & Mayhem

He’s the most perfect man I’ve ever met, but something is… wrong. I don’t see it at first. All I see is the gorgeous man with dark eyes and long hair and that unusual blue beard. The piercings and the tattoos, the beautiful smile. All I can focus on is the way he touches me, the sound of his voice in my ear, the perfect life he draws me into. I hide it from him at first. The fact that… I think I’m losing my mind. That I keep seeing something lurking in the corners of rooms, keep hearing a terrible voice mumbling in the dead of night, keep seeing white eyes watching me in the dark. Something is haunting me. Tormenting me. Trying to ruin this perfect life I now have with Theo, so I do my best to pretend that everything is fine. That I’m not terrified I’m losing my mind, or that a demon is stalking the halls every night trying to… get me. Until I can’t pretend anymore. Until I realise… the monster in my nightmares and my perfect, loving boyfriend are not so different after all. Death’s Bloom is an MM horror retelling of Bluebeard, as part of the collaboration Monsters & Mayhem: An MM Horror Collection, adapting some of your favourite classic horror stories with an MM romance twist. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It includes mild BDSM, including restraint and breath play, and MMM elements as well as graphic depictions of death, gore and violence, a somewhat toxic relationship and morally reprehensible characters. Trigger warnings: Explicit sexual content; restraint; throatf*cking; breath play; hair pulling; primal play; consensual sex while one MC is (knowingly) possessed; elements of MMM through demonic possession; male MC who wears “feminine” clothing including lingerie; MC who questions their mental health; graphic descriptions of on-page killing, injury and violence; brief mentions of queerphobia; themes of religion, demons and worship; horror elements of ghosts, hauntings and demonic possession.