What if everything that made you you-your name, your face, your past-started vanishing like fog in the sun? Not all at once, but slowly, cruelly, piece by piece.
Elias Mercer knew who he was. Until the world decided it didn't. His fingerprints? Rejected. His bank accounts? Gone. His sister swears she's never met him. Faces that should be familiar twist with unease at his presence, and cameras... cameras show something else standing where he should be. His only lifeline is a battered leather notebook where he scrawls the names and memories that slip from his grip. But now, even the ink won't stay.
There's something wrong with the way shadows move around him-too long, too slow, too knowing. His reflection waits for him to blink. Voices on the phone don't hang up when the call ends. The world bends, not in sharp cracks, but in soft, silent warps that leave him questioning which version of reality he woke up in.
Every step forward feels like a step out of sync. Each chapter pulls him deeper into a maze of glitches, echoes, and phantom faces that look far too much like his own. But it's not just the world forgetting him-he's being erased. His body, his mind, his very presence is unraveling. And somewhere just past the corner of his eye, something is watching with eyes that never close.
The notebook is almost full. The pages are starting to turn blank.
If no one remembers you, were you ever real?
"The Man Who Wasn't" is a slow, suffocating descent into the terror of being unmade. A psychological horror that twists identity, isolation, and the cold, quiet fear of slipping between the cracks of existence.
Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead.
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When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him.
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