Name: A Theory of Vanishing Doors
Author: Justin Gamez
ISBN: 9798993920337

About the Book

A forgotten library stands at the edge of a fading town, a structure with no recorded history, no architect, and no official name. When researcher Emory Vale is hired to document its contents, he discovers shelves of books without authors, rooms that rearrange themselves overnight, and catalog entries that seem to record events that never happened.

Each door inside the library leads to a slightly different version of the same room—as if the building is reconstructing memories it has lost. The deeper Emory explores, the more the library begins to remember him in return, adding his name to index cards and cross-references that predate his arrival.

Whispers of former visitors echo through misplaced journals and marginal notes: “Do not close a door you didn’t open.” · “Memory leaves a stain.” · “The library forgets in order to protect itself.”

When Emory uncovers a hidden archive stripped of its title, he is forced to confront a chilling possibility: the library was never built to store knowledge—it was built to erase it.

About the Author

Justin Gamez writes strange, atmospheric fiction about forgotten places, unstable realities, and the quiet ways that ordinary lives intersect with the impossible. Drawing on a love of libraries, city maps, and marginal notes no one was meant to read, his work blends mystery, magical realism, and speculative philosophy.

When he is not drafting stories about doors, archives, and fractured streets, Justin can usually be found digging through used bookshops, sketching impossible floorplans, or annotating obscure nonfiction with questions that probably should not be asked out loud.

A Theory of Vanishing Doors stands alongside other liminal, stand-alone novels such as A Catalogue of Echoing Streets and The Archivist of Missing Origins, which explore repeating cities, missing origins, and the thin boundaries between memory and reality.

Other Published Books

Stand-alone novels set in the same liminal universe of vanished histories, unstable streets, and forgotten archives.

A Catalogue of Echoing Streets

A detective maps streets that repeat themselves—and the lives that were never supposed to cross.

Detective Aiden Sloane stumbles onto a block of the city that repeats in parallel: the same windows, the same lights, the same stranger—alive in one version, dead in the other. More “echoed streets” appear, replaying alternate choices the city tried to forget. As Aiden builds a catalogue of these anomalies, he uncovers a long-buried urban experiment suggesting that every missed decision leaves a street behind to remember it.

The Archivist of Missing Origins

Every story starts somewhere. Not every beginning wants to be found.

Scholar Mira Ellison investigates lives, buildings, and events whose beginnings have somehow fallen out of the record. Her search leads to a secret archive run by a nameless Archivist who collects missing origins: erased birth records, plans for structures that never officially existed, testimonies that begin in the middle. When Mira discovers an origin that someone actively removed from history, she must decide whether restoring it will repair reality—or break it.

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