Historical fiction. Real letters. Your mailbox.
Forbidden love. Unreliable memories. A letter that changes everything.
Step into a mystery told through physical letters and story artifacts, delivered by mail. Not another screen to open. A world to hold in your hands.
$149 per series · One-time payment · 24 installments · Postage included
Raven is a preorder: first letters mail the week of November 2, 2026.
Choose the world you’ll disappear into
A doomed voyage. A missing life. A village turning on its own. An unfinished tale becoming a murder scene. Each complete series follows its own characters, its own dangerous attachments—and the secrets they commit to paper.
Southampton, 1912 · Forbidden love at sea
One voyage. Two loves.
No safe passage.
Elise Fairchild is promised to Liam. Her heart is entangled with Preston, a married man. On the eve of the Titanic’s departure, her private choices are already pulling her toward danger.
Enter The Titanic Letters$149 one-time · 24 mailings over 12 months · Postage included.
Danvers Asylum, 1914 · A stolen identity
They call her Grace.
She doesn’t know why.
A woman wakes in Danvers Asylum with no memory of her past. Dr. Thomas Keller’s kindness becomes a lifeline—and a forbidden connection. Someone needs her to stay forgotten.
Enter The Asylum Letters$149 one-time · 24 mailings over 12 months · Postage included.
Salem Village, 1692 · Love under suspicion
They need her help.
They fear her hands.
Sarah Latham’s neighbors seek her remedies in secret and distrust her in daylight. As accusations spread, her growing bond with Thomas Hathorne—the judge’s son—crosses a dangerous line.
Enter The Salem Letters$149 one-time · 24 mailings over 12 months · Postage included.
Philadelphia, 1842 · Gothic mystery · PREORDER
He wrote it.
Then it happened.
A wine merchant is found behind fresh brick in his own cellar. Detective Ignatius Barrow turns to Edgar Allan Poe for answers. Poe knows the scene—not because he has been there, but because he wrote it. The tale is unfinished. Unpublished. Who is reading his unfinished pages?
Explore The Raven LettersPREORDER · $149 paid in full when you preorder.
One-time payment · 24 installments · Postage included.
First letters mail the week of November 2, 2026. After your first mailing, letters arrive approximately twice a month.
This story doesn’t live in an app
A letter gives you one version of events. A photograph, a record, a note in the margins may make you question it.
One payment covers the complete story: 24 installments of physical letters and story artifacts, with postage included. No recurring subscription. Raven is a preorder; first letters mail the week of November 2, 2026.
For Titanic, Asylum and Salem, each mailing includes a four-page letter, with more than 75 story artifacts across each full series. Raven unfolds through physical letters and accompanying story artifacts. Explore each story for its own details.
Read, look closer, and return to earlier clues. The next envelope gives you something new to consider—and something to look forward to.
“I do not remember anyone. I do not even remember myself.”
Excerpt from Letter 1 · The Asylum Letters
Story artwork and digital insert samples are shown here, not photographs of a delivered mailing.
For yourself. For someone you know by heart.
Not another thing to put on a shelf.
A new reason to wonder what happens next.
For the reader who disappears into a historical world, falls for the wrong character, and always wants one more chapter. Send the letters to them—or keep this escape for yourself.
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The person behind the correspondence
Created by Christopher Forrest, author and former trial attorney. Christopher writes and designs each series, bringing his background in law and storytelling to the conflicting accounts and human choices at the heart of the mystery.
Your first-mailing guarantee
Request a refund within 30 days of receiving your first mailing. We’ll refund the full purchase price, including sale-price purchases, with no cancellation or restocking deductions, and cancel the remaining mailings.
Read the refund policy →Before the first letter
No. These are historical-fiction stories told through physical letters and story artifacts. Their characters and mysteries unfold within historical settings.
For The Titanic Letters, The Asylum Letters and The Salem Letters, new-member mailings go out on the 1st and 15th of the month. After the first letter, arrivals are approximately 15–16 days apart. The Raven Letters is a preorder: first letters mail the week of November 2, 2026; after your first mailing, letters arrive approximately twice a month. Mailing dates are not guaranteed arrival dates. Postal transit times vary.
Yes. Use your recipient’s shipping address and your own billing details. Let them know to watch the mailbox so the letters aren’t mistaken for ordinary mail.
No. One payment covers the complete 24-installment series, with postage included. For Raven, the full $149 is paid when you preorder.
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