Sleep, Dearie, Sleep
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Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a horror ebook by Jean Marie Bauhaus. It runs 71 pages and is written in English. It was published in 2026 by A Glass Darkly Publishing. It costs $3.99 and is DRM-free. South Carolina, 1792. Archibald Craig is a man of singular ambition. A junior partner to the famed architect of the President’s House, Archie is tasked with conquering the Yadkin River by building a bridge to the Southwest Territory.
Description
Some foundations are built on stone. Others are built on bones and blood.
South Carolina, 1792. Archibald Craig is a man of singular ambition. A junior partner to the famed architect of the President’s House, Archie is tasked with conquering the Yadkin River by building a bridge to the Southwest Territory. But the river is unyielding, and the land itself seems to rebel against the intrusion of "progress."
As freak storms and mysterious tremors topple the masonry, the project spirals into a nightmare. Archie’s workmen—Scottish Highlanders steeped in the "old ways"—whisper of threshold covenants and the ancient blood-prices required to appease the spirits of the earth.
“Let it be finished, and I will pay whatever you ask.”
In a moment of feverish desperation, Archie utters a prayer that should never have been spoken. The bridge finally stands firm, but an unrelenting shadow of tragedy has fallen over the Craig household. The horrific truth remains just out of reach, buried beneath the weight of the stone.
Told through a haunting collection of diaries and letters, Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a slow-burn epistolary journey into the heart of folk horror, where the price of success is higher than any man can afford to pay.
Details
Length
71 pages
Story Length
Novella
Genre / Category
Horror
Publisher / imprint
A Glass Darkly Publishing
Audience
Adult
Publication date
March 31, 2026
About the Author
Jean Marie Bauhaus
Easily spooked by ghost stories as a child, teen Jean faced her fears by forcing herself to watch horror movies and read Stephen King until she fell in love with the genre. As a grown-up (more or less, depending on who you ask), her tastes expanded to include a broader range of speculative fiction and romance, but she keeps coming back to the supernatural and paranormal. When she’s not writing about ghosts, zombies, vampires and other things that go bump in the night, she can usually be found rambling through the wood, wrangling chickens or trading her keyboard for a crochet hook and curling up with a mug of tea and a podcast. Or at the microwave, re-heating her tea because she forgot to drink it before it got cold. #writerproblems Born and raised in Oklahoma, she currently makes her home in the middle of the woods deep in the Ozark mountains with her husband and best friend of 20 years, a velociraptor in the guise of a German shepherd named Dixie, and a little black meowing fluffball named Olive, along with two box turtles and a flock of fluffbutts. And in case you were wondering... it's pronounced just like the goth band.
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