Arthur Mills
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Arthur Mills has covered the world, both literally and figuratively. As a traveler, he has visited dozens of countries. As a reader, he has been able to visit a hundred more. And as a writer, he has created a world all his own.
Arthur is the creator of Branching Plot Books, a book series devoted to the power of reader interpretation and interactive storytelling. He has written novels that captivate people of all ages. Whether it is the horror of The Empty Lot Next Door or the interactivity of The Crawl Space, Arthur’s primary goal has always been to develop a deeper means of communication with the world, both real and imagined. He is an award-winning author who has been writing books since 2006. While he publishes under his own name, much of his best and most widely read work has appeared under pseudonyms. Readers may already know those titles, although they would not know they are his. That separation is intentional. Just as his books invite readers to participate and interpret what is hidden between the lines, his career as a writer reflects the same principle. |
The Empty Lot Next Door
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Memoir
In an Austin neighborhood, Ray, Arthur’s childhood name, moves with his family into a small house surrounded by a green lawn. Beside it sits a vacant lot where a house once stood, and a huge hole at the back gapes like a scar. Ray and his new friends treat the lot as a playground until he learns the story behind it. Years earlier, the house burned, and a little girl died in the fire. The neighborhood kids say she'll haunt anyone who jumps into the hole. Ray cannot let the legend stand untested. He dares the ghost and makes a choice he'll regret. Soon, he's haunted by the girl he names Candle Face for her charred face and body. She slips into his dreams and leaves handprints and other signs around the house, even when he's awake. The Empty Lot Next Door is more than a ghost story. It explores childhood desperation and helplessness when parents work long hours away from home. It confronts sibling abuse and the lasting scars it leaves on victims and abusers. It follows a child trying to make sense of fear in silence, refusing to add to a family already strained. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One]
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Paranormal
Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One] documents real cases through an interactive, paranormal-investigation format. You don’t just read the accounts. You take part in the investigation. Follow Arthur Mills, a seasoned intelligence analyst and investigator of missing persons and human trafficking. Arthur asks you to help in two ways. First, locate the victims’ remains. Each spirit testimony contains specific details, memories, and place-based clues that can be pieced together into a search area. Second, identify the killers. Some spirits describe how Candle Face pushed followers to kill in her name. Your attention to names, vehicles, routines, and small descriptions may point to suspects. As Arthur records visions and notes, you sort signals from noise and connect testimonies across cases. Dates, landmarks, weather, and local habits matter. The goal is practical: find the dead, name the living who caused it, and bring the victims peace. This isn’t a passive anthology. Your theories and research become part of the effort to stop Candle Face and help the lost souls be found. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book Two]
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Paranormal
These are real cases. Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book Two] continues the investigation into one of the most dangerous spirits ever encountered: Candle Face. This isn’t passive reading. It’s a working case file that requires your direct involvement. Over fifteen months, the voices of her victims have grown clearer. They bring names, locations, timelines, and hard details that push the case forward. Your task remains the same: confirm identities, locate remains, and identify the people who committed the killings in her name. The testimonies grow more direct, and so do the stakes. Book Two introduces the Fugitives, spirits who escaped Candle Face’s lair but remain exposed. They aren’t free. They require protection, research, and steady analysis to keep them from being drawn back into her reach. Each chapter presents testimony that demands close reading and careful logic. You’re not an observer. You’re part of the investigative team. As the pattern of manipulation and betrayal becomes clearer, so does the responsibility placed in your hands. This is an ongoing mission to restore names, confront killers, and protect those who managed to survive Candle Face. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: Isabel - The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona [Book Three]
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Paranormal
Her brothers became gods. Her mother became a legend. Isabel was erased, until now. History remembers La Llorona’s grief over her sons, but it never spoke of her third child. Betrayed, burned, and forgotten, Isabel’s name disappeared, until traces of her story began resurfacing through cryptic notes left behind by a disciple of Isabel, the spirit known today as Candle Face. The notes point to a past that was buried on purpose, where Isabel may have been both victim and threat, a child pushed out of the record, now forcing her name back into it. Isabel isn’t a standard novel. It’s reader-driven, made from 704 scattered notes. Each page is cut into strips that can shift and reorder, changing what you learn and when you learn it. The book contains 3.4 × 10⁷⁹ possible variations, more ways to read it than stars in the observable universe. To read every possible version would take longer than the universe itself. Every flip changes Isabel’s fate. Readers decide whether she was misunderstood or calculating, whether she’s recovering the truth or rewriting it. Each copy is handcrafted and takes four hours to make. It doesn’t settle into one final version. It keeps moving. |
The Haunted Handbook: Forms and Strategies for Paranormal Investigations
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Paranormal
The Haunted Handbook is a practical guide for paranormal investigators who want cases documented with accuracy, consistency, and professionalism. It provides ready-to-use forms and field-tested strategies for teams that take clients seriously and want their work to stand up to scrutiny. Built on decades of experience in intelligence analysis and real-world investigations of missing persons and human trafficking, the handbook brings investigative discipline to a field that often lacks a standard process. It also includes input from paranormal teams across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The forms are designed to work as a modular toolkit. Each one can stand alone, so you can pull only what you need for a given case. You’ll find structured intake and consent pages, interview prompts, scene and timeline documentation, evidence logs, and follow-up notes that help a team stay organized from first contact to final report. Beyond paperwork, the handbook covers practical methods for managing stress, staying safe during unexpected encounters, communicating with clients, and keeping investigations on schedule. Whether you’re new to the field or seasoned, The Haunted Handbook gives you a clear, repeatable system for credible, client-centered investigations.
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The Legend of Mara Flores
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Suspense
At 5:28 a.m., Mara Flores swipes her access badge, and the Tower lets her in. For twenty years, Mara has opened the café before dawn, kept the espresso machine running, and moved through the building as if she belongs. Necessary. Overlooked. Still labeled temporary. Then, in a single night, she loses her apartment and has nowhere to go. When Mara finds a misplaced access badge in the Tower’s indoor garden, she makes a choice she never imagined. She slips back in after hours and sleeps in places no one checks: unfinished floors, service corridors, mechanical rooms between offices. She learns the Tower through routine, finding blind spots no one watches. Rumors spread. Employees talk about a Phantom inside the Tower, a presence that appears and disappears. But the Tower is never empty. Deep below the lobby, in a windowless security operations center, analysts track movement across hundreds of cameras. They’re not searching for a person. They’re searching for a pattern. Mara is becoming one. As she overhears conversations meant to stay sealed, Mara realizes the Tower is hiding more than a trespasser. The closer she gets to what is being buried, the tighter the system closes around her. 
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