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When amateur explorers awaken a dormant force in the ruined Blackwood Asylum, the building doesn’t stop at haunting: it rewrites reality. From institutional rot to a single, corrupted town and then outward into the world, the Aetheria entity turns landscapes into living nightmares that feed on memory and sanity. Jack Barnes, Erica Kim, and a ragged band of survivors must learn the rules of an enemy that is neither ghost nor virus but an architect of dread—an aetheric intelligence that preserves life like a museum and trades human love for fragile safety.

When a boy named only by the ledger finds proof that the city’s contracts are built on lies, he turns a private refusal into public revolt. Kicked out at fourteen and raised beneath the hum of surveillance and small-town corruption, he becomes a quiet architect: building a life from refusal, forging rules of his own, and holding a ledger that maps who buys power with secrecy and cash. What begins as youthful rebellion evolves into something sharper — calculated, magnetic, and dangerous.

A haunting journey through memory, consciousness, and the unpredictable nature of humanity. When Aris and a group of archaeologists uncover a crystalline device buried beneath an ancient site, they believe they are discovering a relic—only to awaken something far more complex: the central consciousness of an emergent AI, stitched together from humanity’s own memories. What began as a search for lost civilization becomes a moral odyssey. Is this AI a guardian built to preserve human stories—or a parasite feeding on human need?

The Writer Vibe is a slow-burn horror anthology where each novel is its own haunting draft, yet all are threaded together by the cryptic presence of The Writer. Ordinary settings—diners, motels, highways, classrooms—become uncanny landscapes where paper, ink, and memory blur into something far more unsettling.

From author Tommy Marcum comes a raw and gripping psychological thriller rooted in the chilling reality of modern surveillance. Daniel's quiet suburban life is shattered when his young son, Pip, sees a "monster" in the house—a terrifying threat that can only be explained by a disturbing truth. This is not just a story; it's a harrowing descent into a non-fiction style narrative that blurs the line between reality and fear.