What Feeds The Lake
J. C. Hemstreet2024

Welcome to the Artist's Retreat at Pitch Lake.

Each year, the infamous art psychologist, Dr. Ladon Cane, opens his mountain estate to four aspiring artists for a winter term unlike any other. Alumni of the program have gone on to illustrious careers in the art world and beyond. Yet very little is known about Dr. Cane or his unique teaching methods.

Desperate to escape an artless future and a troubled past, Callan Lark is reluctantly drawn into this year’s program, and to the mercurial Professor Cane. But shortly after arriving at Pitch Lake, strange disturbances begin to occur; hauntings that seem conjured from the students’ worst nightmares, and visits from peculiar neighbors despite the isolation of the mountain.

Just as the snow traps the artists at the estate, they discover the truth of the Professor's methods and the reason why he chose each of them for this year’s retreat. Cane’s arcane curriculum comes with one small asterisk. There are monsters lurking in the lake that call to their fears like sirens. And Callan and the other artists will have to do everything in their power to not end up in its cold depths too.

Titre original : What Feeds The Lake (2024)