Name: Dead Letter Dispatches: The Rotting Midway
Brand: The Buried Secrets Co.
Price: 11.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Dead Letter Dispatches: The Rotting Midway

The ultimate haunted carnival horror experience

Heart-pounding. Suffocating. The kind of story that makes you afraid to check your mailbox—and unable to stop.

📨 24 letters mailed directly to your door over the course of a full year
🔥 Fast-paced, addictive, and terrifying. Get immersed from the very first envelope
🎪 Includes notes, sketches, carnival tickets, and pictures pulled from The Rotting Midway
🎁 The perfect gift for the horror lover in your life. Flexible start date available
📼 Built for fans of found footage, analog horror, and serial scares
✅ 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Love it or get a full refund
📬 Your first letter ships same or next day if order is received prior to 2:00 p.m. PST
🪖 30% of every purchase supports veterans and domestic abuse survivors

Founder Pricing Ends May 1, 2026. Lock in your edition now before the price increases!

$11.99

Each order received by 2:00 p.m. PST will ship out same day or the next day.

Each Dead Letter Dispatch installment numbered 2 through 24 is mailed around the 15th and the last day of each month. The exact date will depend on the post office's schedule. Getting the mail will never be the same again.

Each envelope is marked, so if you ever find that you've missed a sequence, just let us know, and we'll get another envelope out to you quickly!

Horrorsmith Publishing and The Buried Secrets Co. have a private Discord server exclusively for the authors of Horrorsmith Publishing and you, our wonderful supporters!

Dive into great discussions about our stories with our street team, with us, and with each other! The QR code with a link will be included in your third mailing. Joining is not mandatory!

If I start mid-year, will I miss letters?

Absolutely not! All subscribers receive the 1st letter upon their order and subsequent mailings in the allotted timeframes.

What if a letter is lost or damaged?

Easy! Simply let us know, and we'll resend that number immediately without question or additional charges.

What is included with each subscription?

You will receive twenty-four letters, two a month for twelve months, that compile an immersive found-footage experience based on the legend of Husher Creek as Eliah Mercer experiences it. Each numbered envelope contains more pieces of the story told through letters, official documents, diary entries, newspaper clippings, interrogations interviews, maps, pictures, etc.

Do I need access to the internet for this adventure?

No. You do not need internet access for the full Husher Creek experience. We will have periodic extras available via email, Discord, and audio files, but these will be sporadic and won't include information necessary for the subscription.

Readers are already lost in The Dead Letter Dispatches

"I just received Letter 1 of The Rotting Midway, and I love it!!!!! I cannot wait for the next letter!!!"
- Paul L.

What's Inside The Rotting Midway?

✉️ Letters from Elliot, written while trapped inside
📋 Official carnival forms & incident reports
🗺️ Warnings scratched, folded, and hidden by those who tried to escape
📷 Photographs from inside the Exposition grounds
📰 Newspaper clippings & missing persons reports
🔍 Contracts & documents the workers left behind
🕯️ Personnel files and records the carnival doesn't know you have

Each piece brings you closer to the exit. But the exit keeps moving.

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The Legend of The Rotting Midway

ANXIOUS. ALONE. ARRIVING.

Elliot Voss came to the carnival to prove he still could. No neighbors, no delivery drivers, no apartment walls to hide behind. Just one night outside, one ticket, one small act of bravery against a lifetime of making himself smaller. The exit was there when he walked in. But it isn't there anymore.

TRAPPED. TREMBLING. TARGETED.

The pitchman has been running his game since 1931. The kettle corn lady hasn't left her stand since 1952. The Ferris wheel operator died on the job in 1989 and hasn't missed a shift since. They all have a story. And now, so does Elliot. Step right up. Three rings for a dollar. You won't need the change where you're going.

ROTTING. RESTLESS. RAVENOUS.

In The Evervale Traveling Exposition & Midway, monsters drift through the midway wearing carnival smiles. The clock has been frozen at 7:42 p.m. since 1983. And Mr. Smiles, who has never spoken a single word in over a century, has been waiting specifically for Elliot for a very long time.

OPEN A LETTER. OPEN A DOORWAY TO HORROR.

Dead Letter Dispatches is a serialized horror collection where the stories are told through twenty-four mailed letters over the course of a year. We didn't invent the concept; we just made it better.

Each edition of Dead Letter Dispatches pulls you into a new location—a hollowed-out creek town, a rotten carnival, a forgotten house, a cabin in the woods—where someone is trapped in a darker, distorted version of once familiar places. Their only connection to the living world is you.

But the more you read, the more the places learn your name.

The locals vanish. The roads change. The water whispers. And yet the letters keep coming.

Every dispatch is a cry for help. Every letter is a warning. And every new reader brings the darkness one step closer.

Some places don't stay dead. They write.

Military-Famly Owned

The Buried Secret Co.is owned and operated by publisher and editor Lyndsey Smith and her husband, Daniel—a proud military family with a deep love for horror. While they live for a good scare, their true purpose lies in service, community, and creating impact where it matters most. They actively support veterans experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic abuse, and first responders, using their passion for storytelling and creating fear as a force for meaningful, positive change.