The Library of Sleeping Souls

The Library of Sleeping Souls

Tales from the Silent Garden – Part IV

by Evelyne D'Lorien



In a forgotten corner of a sleeping city, there is a library that remembers more than it reads.



Its shelves are lined not with stories, but with dreams — and to read one is to give up your own.



When Amara, a quiet archivist who hasn't dreamed in seventeen years, discovers the Library beneath flickering lanterns and moonlit stone, she believes she has nothing left to lose. But the books here are not still. Some breathe. Some hunger. And some remember more than they should.



As Amara gives her dreams to the Library — one by one — her memories begin to change. The scent of plums. A face once loved. A red thread tied to a forgotten name.



In the end, Amara must decide: Is it worth sacrificing wonder for truth? Or does the cost of knowledge weigh heavier than the gift of dreaming?



The Library of Sleeping Souls is a lyrical gothic fairytale about memory, loss, and the soft tragedy of being known.



A story for those who read in their sleep and wake with ink on their hearts.



Evelyne D'Lorien writes stories like forgotten lullabies — quiet, poetic, and soaked in moonlight.



Drawing from the deep wells of gothic fairytales, magical realism, and silent grief, her work explores the fragile line between memory and myth. Each tale is a candlelit room filled with dust, ink, and the soft ache of something almost remembered.



She is the author of the Tales from the Silent Garden series — a collection of dark, melancholic stories that read like dreams one wakes from slowly.



Evelyne lives between libraries and shadows, and always leaves the last page slightly ajar — in case the story wants to return.