Ben suffers leg pain from an old injury, so he’s not having a good time shopping with his distracting three year-old brother, Eric. Luckily Doubleday Books reached out to me and offered me an ARC!īad Man begins with brothers, Ben and Eric, who are out having a normal day shopping for groceries. It’s a creepy good time.ĭathan Auerbach eventually published Penpal into a full length novel, and then once I heard he wrote Bad Man, I really wanted to read it. Everything is true here, even if it’s not.” In other words, it is a subreddit for authors to post their horror stories and readers/commenters had to go along with it. No Sleep’s subreddit has one rule: “Suspension of disbelief is key here. He wrote the serial-creepypasta series, Penpal, in the /r/nosleep subreddit. I first became familiar with Dathan Auerbach several years ago when he was known as /u/1000Vultures on Reddit.
Keeps looking for his baby brother, while missing the most important message of all. There’s something wrong with the air itself. With the graffitied baler that shudders and moans and beckons. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a night stock job at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence.īen can feel that there’s something wrong there. Still searches, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben’s father can no longer afford. That window closed five years ago, leaving Ben’s life in ruins.
Two days to tear the world apart if there’s any chance of putting yours back together. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. They say you’ve got only a couple days to find a missing person.
Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. Reddit horror sensation Dathan Auerbach delivers a devilishly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won’t stop looking for him.Įric disappeared when he was three years old. Genre: Adult fiction, mystery, thriller, horror
ARC provided by Doubleday Books in exchange for an honest review
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