Character-driven horror about the worlds we lose, the monsters we become, and the fragile places we still dare to call home.
Nine years after civilization collapsed, Bayze Sullivan has built a sanctuary on Captiva Island. There is only one problem: he no longer knows how to live in peace.
When the Afflicted begin to change—and something vast starts calling from the Florida mainland—Bayze must leave the home he fought to create and confront a horror that remembers the dead.
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Six years of imagination, hardship, and human experience shaped the world and the people at the heart of the story.
Watch analog-horror transmissions and videos from the world of Leaving Captiva on the official Leaving Captiva YouTube channel.
Midland, Ontario
Douglas Gullett is a Canadian horror writer from Midland, Ontario. His lifelong connection to the outdoors—wildlife, forests, shorelines, fishing, and violent weather—shapes stories where nature is never merely scenery.
His novels are also shaped by his own life. Both the joyful and difficult parts of his experiences have helped him understand loneliness, loyalty, fear, love, and the complicated ways people protect one another. He carries those emotions into his characters, giving even deeply flawed people something recognizably human.
Douglas writes survival horror with a compassionate core: damaged people trying to hold on to one another, places of refuge that become prisons, and ordinary love enduring against impossible forces. Leaving Captiva is his debut novel.
Douglas
“The apocalypse is the setting.
The people are the story.”
A series of standalone short stories exploring supernatural and psychological horror.
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