The Rotting Room

Published in 2025
290 pages

epub


Viggy Parr Hampton, MPH is a horror author, epidemiologist, and host of the podcast “Horror Humor Hunger.” She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is also a member of the DreadPop Magazine team, producing the popular YouTube segment “Tag Team Tales of Terror,” where she challenges fellow horror authors to create a progressive story with her.

What is this book about?
Sister Rafaela, a newcomer to the cloistered Sisters of Divine Innocence, yearns for redemption from her horrific past. However, her new abbey, bound by a vow of silence and a disturbing burial ritual, hides its own sinister secrets.

When a mysterious stranger arrives and dies soon after, her body resists decomposition, sparking fevered claims of sainthood among the nuns… but Rafaela suspects something far darker.

As the abbey teeters on the edge of madness, Rafaela and local priest Father Bruno race to uncover whether the Sisters of Divine Innocence are graced by a divine miracle—or consumed by unspeakable evil.