We're Not Safe Here
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the author of The Bone Witch and The Girl from the Well comes a chilling horror told primarily through video transcripts, message boards, and radio shows, that will shake you to your core.
Wispy Falls is safe. The town motto is even “You’ll be safe here!” But you aren’t safe in the woods that surround the town. In the woods there are monsters. People go missing in the woods. And sometimes the monsters don’t stay in the woods…maybe you aren’t that safe in Wispy Falls.
A seventeen-year-old vlogger known as Storymancer is determined to get to the bottom of what's wrong in his town. A few years ago, his little brother went missing in the woods and no one, not even his parents, seemed to care enough to try and find him.
But for the first time, an actual body has been found in the woods, and Storymancer is using the opportunity to uncover the rotten core at the heart of Wispy Falls. To investigate the monsters that lurk in the shadows, and the people in town who might just want the monsters there after all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chupeco (The World's End) channels the unsettling ambiance of Welcome to Night Vale in this spine-tingling supernatural horror mystery. Four years after 17-year-old Storymancer's six-year-old brother, Lee, went missing in the cryptid-infested woods surrounding Wispy Falls, the teen—a popular streamer who investigates abandoned and haunted areas around town—continues trying to understand what happened. When Storymancer learns that a dead body recently found in the woods was purportedly misidentified, he delves into the circumstances surrounding the corpse and the rash of disappearances within the woods, and begins investigating key personnel employed at Penumbra, a mysterious nearby facility responsible for studying the cryptids terrorizing Wispy Falls. Delightfully nightmarish creature descriptions and intriguing town lore enlivens this genre-savvy take on found footage horror. Multimedia formatting throughout features video transcripts, social media correspondence, message board threads, and more, blending conspiracy-laced paranoia, creeping supernatural menace, and astute social commentary into a narrative that steadily builds into an unnerving portrait of small-town politics. Ages 14–up.
