About The Song Over the Black Lake
Deep in the Carpathian Mountains there are places the locals never enter after sunset. A forest where people lose their way. A lake over which a woman’s song drifts through the night. And those who follow it… rarely return.
When a girl vanishes without a trace from a remote mountain village, Inspector Elias Korven takes the case. From the very beginning the investigation feels strange: no tracks, no convincing witness statements. Only the fear that has seized the entire village — a fear the people refuse to speak about.
Yet with every passing day of the investigation that fear becomes almost tangible. A few days later the body of a drowned man is found on the shore of Black Lake. He lies far from the water, yet his lungs are filled with lake water.
Now there are even more questions:
Are the girl’s disappearance and this death connected?
Could the dead man have seen something he was never meant to see — and paid the price for it?
Korven is used to hunting killers among the living. He believes in facts, evidence, and rational explanations. But the deeper the investigation leads him into the forest, the more often the locals begin to speak of things generations tried to forget. The ancient legends no longer feel like mere folklore.
And soon Korven faces a terrifying truth: Sometimes the greatest danger is not coming face to face with a killer… The greatest danger is discovering that the legends have been true all along.
If you are looking for a dark supernatural mystery that opens the door to a larger saga — where Slavic folklore, ancient legends, and long-forgotten horrors will unfold across the books to come — this is where the journey begins.
Open the door. Let the song over Black Lake be heard.
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Author Bio:
Vito Ravenwood is an independent author investigating old Slavic myths, forgotten Carpathian legends, and stories that survived through the centuries, creating a gateway into a world where folklore still lives.