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About The Book

The Dance is a haunting psychological horror novella that blends beauty with brutality, silence with screams, and memory with madness. Set in the deceptively serene town of Ashmore, the story follows the enigmatic Peter and Martha Vane an elegant couple whose outward grace masks an unspeakable darkness. As lavender-scented rituals and carefully orchestrated murders unfold behind closed villa doors, the narrative weaves through unsettling stillness, unsettlingly calm servants, and a house that doesn’t just watch it remembers.
What begins as a tale of subtle dread escalates into a surreal waltz with something far older and more sinister than human cruelty. The house in which the story takes place is not merely a setting it is a living archive, collecting not lives, but memories. The Dance is not just a performance it’s a curse, a cycle, and an offering.
With prose that is lyrical and cinematic, the story dances between poetic beauty and visceral horror. The recurring presence of “What a Wonderful World” becomes ironic and chilling, anchoring a world where elegance masks evil, and the mundane gives way to monstrous.
As new characters are pulled into the house’s grip including the reluctant Lenny, whose transformation becomes the soul of the story the book asks its most disturbing question: What happens when the house starts to remember you?
Dark, eerie, and unnervingly poetic, The Dance is a gothic horror experience for readers who appreciate psychological depth, atmospheric dread, and stories that leave a lingering echo in the mind long after the final page.

About The Author

I’m Rukesh Nitta, a poet who has always been drawn to the deeper layers of thought the quiet, the strange, and the emotional corners we often ignore. My poems explore the human mind, society, and the things we feel but rarely say out loud.
The Dance is my first book. I’ve been a horror lover for as long as I can remember not just jump scares or ghosts, but the kind of horror that creeps in slowly, hides behind beauty, and stays with you long after the story ends. This book came from that love. It’s my attempt to blend poetry with fear, silence with screams, and elegance with darkness.
My writing come from a deep fascination with how horror can reveal truths about who we are. I believe the scariest stories are not always the loudest they’re the ones that whisper something real.