The Artifact That Wants to Be Worn

By: Petchinsky, Matthew

In the quiet, dust-lined halls of the Briar Hollow Museum of the Unseen, artifacts do not simply exist - they wait.

When a cursed turquoise bracelet appears inside a restricted archive drawer, Rowan feels an immediate, unexplainable pull toward it. Maeve feels something different: heat searing through an old scar that reacts whenever the artifact draws near. The bracelet is not decorative. It is not ornamental. It is aware.

As reality begins to subtly distort - reflections shifting, gravity bending, voices layering beneath thought - Rowan and Maeve uncover a terrifying truth: some objects are not relics of the past, but offers from something watching beyond the visible world. The bracelet does not force itself onto a wearer. It aligns. It fits. It convinces.

When they attempt to contain it, the rules of containment begin to change.

In this gothic psychological horror set in a shadowed Texas museum, love becomes resistance, consent becomes distortion, and the line between possession and compatibility blurs. The Artifact That Wants to Be Worn explores intimacy, agency, and the quiet horror of something ancient learning your shape.

Some objects demand to be worn.

Some are already wearing you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GR1N3HSH
• ISBN13: 9798348560027
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"