A dog with burning red eyes. A cursed book of names. A winter no one survives clean. In the frozen fog of 1880 Essex Heath, something old is hunting again. Esther Graves arrives with one mission: stop the deaths. A demon dog, known in folklore as the Black Shuck, stalks the outskirts of town, killing without mercy. But this isn't just legend-it's a blood pact, centuries old, and it's unraveling. Armed with the Book of Death Names, Esther can see who the creature will take next-and rewrite fate. But every name she changes shifts the death to someone else. And the more she alters the curse, the more the Shuck changes too. To stop it, Esther will need to break the silence, dig up the buried past, and risk her own soul-by letting the dead fight through her. Red-Eyed Winter is a chilling novella of folklore horror, possession, and a woman staring down death with nothing but grit and a name.