The Index of Forbidden Names

By Matthew Petchinsky

There is a place where names are not recorded-but removed.

Deep within a hidden national archive, Dr. Elara Voss uncovers a forbidden index: a living record of identities marked for erasure. At first, it appears to be a classified catalog-until she sees the impossible. Names vanish from its pages without trace. Histories collapse. Lives unravel. And then, her own name rises to the top.

As reality begins to fracture around her, Elara is dragged into the lowest levels of the Registry-a place where memory is stripped, voices are harvested, and identity itself is rewritten. The deeper she descends, the more she understands the truth: this system does not just erase people. It consumes them.

To survive, Elara must do the unthinkable-break herself before the Registry can define her. But in a world where speaking your name gives it power, silence becomes the only weapon left.

Dark, cerebral, and relentlessly unsettling, The Index of Forbidden Names is a gothic occult horror novel that explores the terrifying cost of being remembered-and the even greater cost of being forgotten.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW14CFK2
• ISBN13: 9798295777929
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"