Door Beneath the Roots

The Poison Tree has been weakened, but the Cabinet is far from safe.When a pale apple marked HOME begins pointing Ichabod Crane toward a road that should not exist, the Twelve Locks discover that something beneath their world has started learning their names, their losses, and the places they still long to return to.Doors begin appearing where no doors should stand. Some offer perfect versions of home. Others call with the voices of the dead. And beneath the roots of the Cabinet lies Underroot, an older structure buried before the prison became a world.Ichabod, Dracula, Carmilla, Baba Yaga, the Creature, the Headless Horseman, and the others descend into a landscape built from abandoned memories, impossible villages, drowned thresholds, and the secrets the founders never intended anyone to uncover.What they find changes everything they believed about the Twelve Locks.They were never simply prisoners.They were made load-bearing.And something beneath the Cabinet has begun to understand that a name can be both a key and a cage.The Door Beneath the Roots is Book Two of The Halloween Cabinet, a gothic dark-fantasy horror series about memory, identity, folklore, impossible worlds, and the terrible things built when fear is mistaken for protection.