A. S. VIEIRA
Literary Works
Before the Movies, There Were Books.
I’ve been creating stories for as long as I can remember. Even as a child, I was always coming up with characters, inventing situations, and convincing my classmates to take part in plays and little “movies” I would make up on the spot. I suppose I was already directing before I even knew what directing meant.
As I grew older, those imaginary worlds began finding their way onto paper. Some of the stories I wrote when I was younger would eventually become part of Haunting Symphonies: Tales from the Umbral. But the character who stayed with me the longest was Arnie Watson. I created him as a teenager, filling handwritten pages with his story. Unfortunately, somewhere between moving from one home to another, those pages disappeared. I lost the manuscript, but I never quite forgot Arnie.
Years later, I decided to revisit his story and write down whatever I could still remember. Of course, I wasn't the same person who had first imagined him, and the story had changed along with me. What began as an attempt to recover something from my teenage years eventually became Permanent Ink, my debut novel.
Looking back, I find something rather beautiful about that. A character I created as a teenager stayed with me long enough to become my first published novel. And although my storytelling has since expanded into screenwriting, books will always hold a special place in my heart. After all, that's where everything began.
Publication Date: May 2024
In the quiet little town of St. Mary, Maine, everything changed when Paul and Ally Watson were brutally murdered in their own mansion. The main suspect was none other than their teenage son, Arnie, who was haunted by his own demons, including the struggles of being openly gay in a small town. While nothing could be used to incriminate the boy, the town had already decided he was guilty. What they didn’t expect was that it was just the beginning of the nightmare.
A year later, as Arnie sets out to clear his name from the wrongful accusation in the murders and find out who killed his parents, a sinister presence returns. Draped in a cape and concealed behind a macabre Venetian mask, this figure is determined to keep their identity hidden. Even if they need to make new victims along the way.
As Arnie delves into the town’s secrets, he discovers hidden motives and realizes he can’t trust anyone in his search for the truth.
Follow Arnie as he unravels the enigma of St. Mary, racing against time to unmask the killer before it’s too late. Get ready for a wild ride in ‘Permanent Ink,' the ultimate small-town soap-opera thriller. Uncover secrets, face twists, and stay hooked in this gripping page-turner inspired by slasher movies like ‘Scream’ and “I know what you did last Summer”.
Publication Date: January 2025
Step into the shadows, where the line between the living and the dead blurs, and every choice echoes through eternity.
In Haunting Symphonies, A. S. Vieira presents thirteen captivating stories that explore the darker side of the human experience—where regret, obsession, and redemption converge in the mysterious realm of the Umbral. Here, souls confront the haunting echoes of their pasts, face the demons they’ve created, and seek the light in worlds veiled in darkness.
A lawyer sacrifices everything for a love that consumes more than his heart. A man lost to addiction walks a road between life and death, haunted by the ghosts of his past. A girl trapped in her nightmares meets creatures more twisted than her imagination could conjure. In these and other chilling tales, the living grapple with supernatural forces that test their very souls, while spirits in the afterlife search for redemption—or fall deeper into despair.
With a blend of psychological and supernatural horror, Haunting Symphonies invites readers to venture into the unknown, where fear is just the beginning, and the only escape is to confront the truth.
Visit the Umbral if you dare—there’s no turning back once the symphony begins.
Publication Date: October 2026
Your final stop may be, well... final.
The N train was supposed to take them from Manhattan to Queens.
Instead, it delivers 352 strangers to a seaside town that shouldn't exist.
Cut off from the world, they soon discover that leaving is impossible. By day, the town appears peaceful, almost inviting. By night, its streets belong to something waiting in the darkness.
As fear gives way to desperation, strangers become allies, secrets emerge, and survival demands impossible choices. But the greatest danger may not be the creatures hunting them. It may be what the town slowly reveals about the people trapped inside it.
Because in Notorious, every arrival comes at a cost.
And the population is always growing.