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Melody

October 13, 2025
Melody

$9.99

“If God is a composer, then all of reality is but His symphony.”

Magazines deemed Elias a prodigy, the Mozart of his time; yet, much is unknown about his past. Although his methods and motivations as a composer and maestro are not well understood, his orchestral works are celebrated worldwide.

Adrian, a young cellist newly recruited into Elias’s world-renowned orchestra, wants nothing more than to prove himself. But beneath the perfection of rehearsal halls and standing ovations, he begins to sense something wrong—a presence woven into the music itself. Each performance feels alive, as if Elias’s compositions are summoning something vast and ancient that listens back.

As Adrian is drawn deeper into the maestro’s vision, the line between inspiration and insanity blurs. To follow Elias may mean transcendence—or the loss of his very soul.

Melody is a haunting psychological horror that explores obsession, free will, the boundaries between creation and madness, and grief—where the divine and the damned share the same song.

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In Melody, Norton tries his hand at horror while staying true to his Hemingway and Jack London-influenced writing style. Fans of cinematic and literary works like…
  • The Hannibal Lecter series
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s collection
  • Shakespeare’s Macbeth
  • Black Swan
  • Donnie Darko
  • The Ninth Gate
  • The Witch
  • Sinister
  • Hereditary
…will love this macabre, philosophical interpretation of Nietzsche’s Übermensch that Norton combines with themes of Christopher Marlowe’s version of the Faustian legend published in 1604. Melody is slated for release on Halloween, 2025.

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