The Listening Room

When a bloodthirsty dictator takes over the country, the students of a small university are gripped by fear. Hattie, an old librarian with memories of a terrible disaster, gathers the college library's patrons and leads them to the safety of its freezing cold basement. The squatters soon learn that the destruction outside is nothing compared to the paranoia they create themselves...

An unapologetically descriptive blend of psychological terror and repulsive splatter, J.H. Hayward's debut short story is sure to turn heads and stomachs in equal measure.