THE STORIES WE TELL Iris, able to see glimpses of the future, discovers an abandoned child and believes it’s the baby she was forced to surrender in a story of accepting fate versus challenging it. But first, she must face the fact that the truth is the hardest story to tell. #miserypit #A #CT #Q

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY X MONSTERS WE MAKE For Solace, streaming is a desperate hustle to keep the lights on. But when a cryptic job offer slides into his DMs he assumes it’s some twisted ARG. until they start showing up for real. #MiseryPit #YA #SFFT #WIP #FT

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED X YELLOWSTONE 💉A serial killer deathly good at twisting the righteous words 🚓 A local cop racing to stop a Luciferian evil 🥃 Moonshine, mining, & madness 🤕 Traumatic pasts 👻 Haunting history of the Irish who came to the US & settled the West #A #T #Q #miserypit

Locked house style mystery IS IT YOU? Being stuck on the moon with a killer, that’s Andrew’s misfortune. Now, he’s running for his life and doesn’t know who to trust. Andrew must see through the secrets and lies to get off the moon base alive. #MiseryPit #Querying #A #SFFM

My 65,000 word speculative thriller features the psychological tension and darker undertones of THE GIRLS I’VE BEEN by Tess Sharpe and delivers social commentaries and features a ticking clock like in ACE OF SPADES by Farida Àbíké-Íyímídé. #MiseryPit #Q #YA #T #H

MURDER, SHE KINKED: Ava is a writer working at being a dominatrix as research for her next novel. When her best friend and mentor is brutally murdered, she continues in the business to search for the killer. Will she be the next victim? #A #CT #Q #MiseryPit

Stephen King's IT x Monsters, Inc. An otherworldly terror is coming for Tim Beaulieu and his daughter Cleo. Tim must look into his past in order to save their future. Will they be able to defeat THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET? #A #Horror #Q #MiseryPit

Vampires, Wealth, inspired by The Godfather A peasant girl becomes the mastermind behind an evil power seeking to enslave humanity. She must choose between strength and death on her 25th birthday. Will her need for strength consume her, and how many must die for her to find out? #MiseryPit #Q #HT

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. #2025Pit #A #HF #R #T

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x TOGETHER WE ROT A botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his kegger as a siren lures him and his friends into the water in this dark re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay. #miserypit #Q #YA #T

#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE Professional hitman Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. 🩸 cosmic horror 🩸 criminal underworld 🩸 married MCs 🩸 villain protagonist #MiseryPit #WIP #A #SFFT

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

A string of mysterious deaths leads high school seniors Jennifer and August to the elite Uther Academy. Slowly, they unravel a two-hundred-year-old secret at the beating heart of the school. But can they uncover Uther’s secret before the school swallows them whole? #MiseryPit #Q #YA #M Art-Evy Abel

Dorian Gray X Frankenstein At a gothic university steeped in mist and secrets, a disillusioned scholar and a beautiful, haunted student make a pact to cheat death through alchemy. But as obsession twists into tragedy, they must face the cost of immortality—and love. #MiseryPit #YA #HT #FT #WIP

SHARP OBJECTS X HILL HOUSE w/ (10) lit agent interest✨ Baylor’s obsession with Kara is dark and consuming—even on their first date. But when she vanishes, he’s hunted by his doppelgänger and must confront himself before time ticks. #MiseryPit #H #T #A #Q #querying #litagents

A Fate tasked with scheduling the lives and deaths of mortals must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on the doorstep of her best friend, Death. Whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea X small town charm of Murder, She Wrote #MiseryPit #A #Q #FM

#MiseryPit As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her. Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place. But what is the stranger’s motive? And does Evie want to be saved? #CT #A

Ocean's Eleven X The Naked Gun A man unemployed so long the foster home he & his wife run will be foreclosed, must mend his relationship with his retired master thief father, with Alzheimer’s, and turn to crime. The score? A portrait of the Prez and one million cash. #MiseryPit #A #CT #WIP Satire

GUMSHOE FRANKENSTEIN: A real-life Frankenstein's monster seeks a Dracula ring stolen by the secret immortality cult that runs Hollywood. Hardboiled and snarky. 68K words. Will appeal to Jim Butcher fans, and would fit inside the world of Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water. #MiseryPit #A #FM #Q

Ninth HouseXThe Shining Hollow boy+cautious girl+a job full of promise & secrets. Between cryptic staff, a dark pull, &haunting guests, can the fresh meat find the true cost of what they’ve been offered? There are no coincidences in The Good Shade Hotel. #MiseryPit #WIP #FT #NA #LGBT #Horror

True crime meets cozy in an 1910 setting in a tour de force of burglaries, smuggling, murders and top notch international police cooperation. Anna and Christian do som uplifting detective work – quite literally. And the criminals are … unusual. #MiseryPit #TCM #HM #A #Q ⌨️📖💙📚

WEDNESDAY X THE SECRET ADVERSARY Husband and wife duo Elsie and Giles race to find a long lost laboratory at the boarding school where they teach, before a mysterious figure can uncover the lab's secrets or put their students in danger. #Miserypit #A #CM #Q

Desperate to fit in at her sorority, Elvira wishes to be like her sorority twin—beloved Anelia. Her obsession with having Anelia’s life spirals and she summons an ancient evil. But did evil forces kill Anelia—letting Elvira usurp her spot—or is that what she wants to believe? #MiseryPit #A #FT #WIP

When 5% of the dead reanimate, the most violent are immediately culled. The remaining are trained to do the jobs most dangerous to humans. At Camp Reclaim, Zedizens Mo and Jay must prove their worth to survive a brutal system that strips away humanity piece by piece. #WIP #A #H #MiseryPit

MI5 Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #litagents 🦋

TENDER IS THE FLESH + THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate #Miserypit #Q #A #SF #H #SpecFic

Hosts of the popular podcast “Reopening” examine the case of The Elkhorn Four, a series of ritualistic murders from 2016. As the case unfolds through interviews, their perception of reality is shattered and their duty to report the truth is challenged. TRUE DETECTIVE + TWIN PEAKS #MiseryPit #CT #Q

The Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋

REBECCAxRIVIERAxTHE PERFECT COUPLE She's always tried to do the 'right thing', but when a death becomes a suspected murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with. #MiseryPit #Q #A #RM

Hosts of a popular podcast examine the case of The Elkhorn Four, a series of ritualistic murders from 2016. As the case unfolds through interviews, they discover an archaic Appalachian faith is alive and well, blurring their sense of reality. TRUE DETECTIVE + TWIN PEAKS #MiseryPit #A #CT #Q

Saltburn x Ripley 2 boys start school on the same day. The smart one graduates with a permanent paralysis while his perpetrator goes from popular to global juggernaut That doesn’t seem fair… He’s got the gun. He’s got the will. He’ll get the guy! #MiseryPit #Q #A #ownvoices #queer #CT

#MiseryPit #WIP #A #H JEEPERS CREEPERS X SEE NO EVIL X THE MIST What would you and your friends do when a fun night at the county fair turns into a night of survival after crossing paths with a serial killer? Craosdeamhan is the Midwest's New Nightmare!

Alice Isn't Dead x The Locked Tomb A half human private eye and her zombie frenemy must track a magical artifact past a shape-shifting millionaire, around a drunken necromancer, and through alligator swamp full of alligator cops...unless they want to watch the world burn. #MiseryPit #Q #A #FM

REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Especially the man she loves. The dead woman's husband. Secrets🤫 Lies🧐 Slow❤️‍🔥 Obsession🖤 Betrayal🔪 Murder💀 #MiseryPit #Q #A #RM

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written game. #MiseryPit #A #FM #WIP

Broke private-eye, Talia, has one job- find out where an ancient stone knife came from. But that means working with her bubbly frenemy.😤 When more mysterious artifacts emerge and her client is killed, they must race to save the treasures before anyone else dies. #MiseryPit #Q #A #CM #LGBTQ

After consenting to a demonic possession to resurrect his fading career, a struggling Boston Red Sox pitcher finds there’s more to the deal than he bargained for and must find a way out of the pact before the evil consumes him—and everyone he loves. #MiseryPit #A #CT #FT #WIP #horror

CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods? #MiseryPit #A #FM #Q

Slow Horses ➕️➕️➕️ Time travel's brutal for an MI5 agent on the run from his government. They almost blew up 1972; he got the blame. Now there's a temporal vortex to close, if the hunters don't kill him first, and a Russian spy from 1997 is running interference. #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #agentguide 🦋

Dear #litagents FYC When hired to prove an accidental death was actually murder, a lady detective finds it’s neither. She needs to find out why, before she ends up at the bottom of the stairs herself… 🕰️ 1824 🕵🏻‍♀️ Lady detective 🌈 characters ☠️ accident / murder or ? #A #WIP #HM #LGBTI #Miserypit

Hello #LitAgents: A dying estate. A bankrupt legacy. A suitor offering salvation or a love that could destroy her. A mother’s death shrouded in mystery. A father she can’t trust. A blood curse feeding the manor’s hunger. Lottie Bradbury must face it all. 96k set in 1919 #MiseryPit #A #Q #H #HM

#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM I, SAID THE SPARROW ♦️Peaky Blinders vibe ♦️1920s ♦️Slow burn romance ♦️Dysfunctional family ♦️LGBTQ+ FMC ♦️Seaside setting ♦️Secrets & lies ♦️Dual timeline & PoV

AGGGTM x GLEE x DO REVENGE 16yo Adelina worries when her bestie vanishes after an unknown stalker texts her. She teams up with 17yo Adam & they discover her bestie’s identity’s a lie. Just who are they looking for & why does her bestie’s phone say Adelina’s also in danger? #miserypit #YA #CM #OWN

How about a treasure hunt for the holidays? A mystery suddenly larger than planned and then, not the only one. Adeline needs all her ingenuity, courage, and skills learned from her detective parents, to find the truth about a missing boy and a dead man in a maze of secrets. #MiseryPit #HM #MG #Q 💙📚

JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP