Possessed

In 1923, Cleveland Moffett crafted a disquieting portrait of a woman's descent into psychological darkness. Penelope Wells attends a party where a medium named Seraphine delivers an ominous prophecy about her fate, a foretelling that will prove terrifyingly accurate. When her husband dies and the horrors of the Great War leave their mark upon her soul, Penelope returns home haunted by nightmares, hallucinations, and voices that blur the line between madness and supernatural possession. She turns to Dr. William Owen, a psychiatrist who must navigate the treacherous waters of her fractured mind, where memories of trauma and spectral visions collide. The novel unfolds through their sessions, revealing a woman at war not only with the memories of the trenches but with something far more ancient and unknowable within herself. Moffett writes with startling modernity about what we now call PTSD, while weaving in gothic atmospherics that suggest the supernatural may be no more terrifying than the human psyche itself. For readers who enjoy early psychological horror and novels that grapple with the question of whether what we call 'possession' is merely illness wearing another face.