Games Like Lantern Hollow

Nine lanterns on the porch rail. Eight of them lit.

Your great-aunt ran the Lantern Hollow Inn for fifty-one years. You met her twice, both times at funerals. Now the inn is yours — eleven rooms, a wraparound porch, and a green cloth-bound register that goes back to 1958.

The register has a column for departed. It has been empty since April 4th, 1961.

A cozy-horror mystery, told slowly

LANTERN HOLLOW is a story-first visual novel set in a two-hundred-person Appalachian town that keeps a light on every porch and does not talk about why. Guests arrive after midnight, soaked, polite, and a little confused about the year. The town's mayor sets the terms. The deputy has three missing-persons files with the inn as the last address. The folklorist in room three has been "leaving Friday" for four Fridays.

Nobody is lying to you. That's the problem.

Four people. Four versions of the curse.

Every route uncovers a different explanation for the register — and every one of them is true.

The threshold

At the end of three nights, every guest in the house stands on the stairs and you are handed a pen.

Close the book. Keep it. Or write your own name in the departed column and walk out the front door with somebody's hand in yours.

Your aunt never had the nerve for the third one. She'd like to think you might.

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Keep your light lit.