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The Collectors

by Marlena Frank

Book Details

Publisher:Marlena Frank
Published:2025-02-11
Pages:43
Format:BOOK
Language:en
ISBN:9781955854382

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Eva canโ€™t deny the truth forever. Through a rotted out hole in the ceiling of Evaโ€™s bathroom lurks a creature with gray skin and swollen limbs. It watches her every move. Each year as the hole has gotten bigger, itโ€™s easier for the creature to emerge. Itโ€™s been working on Eva for a while now, helping her avoid the hole, encouraging her to deny it even exists. What starts out as a difficult home improvement project turns into a terror that Eva wonโ€™t be able to ignore. She thinks the creature is h

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A creature with gray skin and swollen limbs has been watching Eva from a rotted hole in her bathroom ceiling for years, a presence that has been slowly growing and manipulating her into denying its very existence. This isn't a simple haunting; it's a slow-burn psychological invasion where the boundary between home and horror has literally crumbled away. As the hole expands, so does the creature's power, turning a simple home repair into a desperate fight for sanity.

Frank masterfully builds a suffocating atmosphere of dread, using the decaying domestic space as a powerful metaphor for internal turmoil. The narrative excels at portraying the insidious nature of denial and the terror of being groomed by a predatory presence you're told to ignore. Readers who relish slow-building, psychologically intense horror where the monster is as much in the mind as in the house will find this story deeply unsettling and impossible to put down.

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