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Yuletide Asylum
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Christmas is a season of open doors.
Some of them only open one way.
When successful and rational Thomas Everett Jr. receives an invitation to a holiday wellness outreach at a state psychiatric hospital, he has no reason to suspect anything is wrong. The season is bright. The town is decorated. The smiles are reassuring. The concern feels... thoughtful.
But care can become control very quickly.
As Christmas approaches, Thomas finds himself caught inside a system that speaks the language of help while quietly stripping away autonomy, credibility, and identity. Every observation is documented. Every objection becomes evidence. Family concern turns into legal authority. And the festive decorations meant to comfort begin to feel like camouflage.
Inside the hospital, sound becomes a weapon. Bells mark time and compliance. Paperwork carries more weight than truth. The air itself seems to remember those who came before. The line between wellness and punishment blurs until resistance feels dangerous and silence feels safe.
Yuletide Asylum is a slow-burn psychological horror novel about institutional gaslighting, family betrayal, and the quiet violence of being labeled. It explores how systems designed to help can erase the very people they claim to protect, and how memory, authorship, and identity become acts of rebellion when everything else is taken.
Unsettling, atmospheric, and deeply human, this story lingers long after the decorations come down.
Because some places don't need locked doors.
They just need permission.
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