Haunting Melissa & The Sequel

Haunting Melissa

& The Sequel

Interactive horror for the iPhone · 2013–2014

If you played it, you remember where you were when your phone started to ring.

2013

Haunting Melissa

Eleven numbered red-toned strips of film frames, one for each chapter.
Eleven chapters

Haunting Melissa was an interactive horror series made for the iPhone, one of the first stories built to be lived on the device in your hand.

It won the 2014 Appy Award. Then the servers that carried it were switched off, and the series went quiet.

Black and white poster: two faces seen through gaps between dark vertical panels, title Haunting Melissa.
Key art
A frightened face split by red digital glitch lines, title Haunting Melissa.
Key art
2014

Dark Hearts

Dark Hearts: The Secret of Haunting Melissa picked up the story a year later, with more chapters, more rooms in the house and more to find in the dark.

The trailer, 2014. More trailers on YouTube
Watch chapters 1–9 of Dark Hearts.
Dark Hearts poster: three faces above a lit house in fog.
Poster
Dark Hearts poster: a pale girl with shadowed eyes behind the title.
Poster
A blurred, screaming figure in a dark hallway. Title: Dark Hearts.
Teaser poster
A young woman looks back over her shoulder in a dim bedroom hung with crosses; a pale figure stands behind her.
From Dark Hearts
A girl in black stands in an open doorway, backlit by a green garden.
The visitor

The faces of Dark Hearts

Dark Hearts: The Secret of Haunting Melissa, November 2014.

A red-haired young woman, her eyes hidden in shadow.A dark-haired woman looking straight at the camera.A boy in a black suit and tie, face half in shadow.A woman with long hair and a cracked, ghostly face.A worn toy robot with a red head.A man in a fedora and dark suit, face lost in shadow.A young man in a dark sweater, lit from above.A woman holding a finger to her lips.An older woman with her hands clasped in prayer.A weathered older man looking down at the camera.A young man in a denim jacket, half smiling.

What do you remember?

Where were you when your phone started to ring?

Which chapter did you play with the lights off?

Who did you make play it with you?

This page is for the people who played. Leave a memory. With your permission, some will be shown here.

A man in a hat silhouetted in a lit doorway.
From the original teaser campaign

Something is coming

The apps went dark. The story did not end. We are working on bringing Haunting Melissa and Dark Hearts back for a new generation of phones.

Leave your email and we will tell you first. Played it back then? Tell us what you remember.

Know someone who remembers it?

Watch & follow

Teaser: “Do You Hear That?” YouTube All trailers YouTube
Where it stands

The apps are offline for now. The trailers, the art and the people who remember it are all still here, and we are working on what comes next.