At the edge of everything, there is a house.

It stands where forgotten stories go to die or to wait. Its rooms shift and breathe. Its walls hold the remnants of tales no one remembers: a tower where a girl once waited for rescue that never came, a ballroom frozen mid-dance, a garden that grows without end. And at its heart lives Yarrow, the Keeper a creature stitched together from the pieces of every caretaker who came before.

Yarrow has one rule: never let anyone in.

Then someone knocks.

The visitor has no memory, no name, no story of their own. They shouldn't exist. They certainly shouldn't be here, in a house that exists outside of time, tended by a keeper who has long forgotten what it means to hope.

But the visitor is here. And their arrival will change everything the house, the stories it holds, and the lonely keeper who has spent centuries believing that some doors should never be opened.

The House at the Edge of Once Upon a Time is a dark fairy tale about forgotten things, broken things, and the radical act of choosing to stay. For readers of Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Shirley Jackson.