Cover Reveal for Prickle Novella
- Vanessa Bettencourt
- 11 hours ago
- 1 min read


“There is nothing of sense to be made; only the writhing, the decaying; the raw, exposed truth of it all. A desecration of flesh and spirit, and she its harbinger.”

EK Larson-Burnett's novella PRICKLE cover designed by Mitra Katsuyosji
IG: @e.k.b.books
Genre: Horror
Steam Level: Romance but no sex
Trigger Warnings: No violence, but gore & body horror
Length: 125 pages
Tropes: cursed inheritance, folk horror, questionable sanity, supernatural parasite
"A dark hunger licks its lips…
Duscha tattoos the strange and the sacred in a cramped studio off Tverskaya Street, guided by a magic she barely understands. The ink—chudo-kraska, her babushka calls it—has always lived in her blood. But lately, it’s been acting on its own.
Clients come in asking for wolves, saints, symbols. They leave with something else entirely. Designs that twist. Changes that burrow deep. Duscha tries to control it, to cleanse the space, to carry on. But the hunger is growing—hers, and the ink’s. And the bodies it marks are no longer just canvases.
They’re doors."
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