The Dead Library
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Last published Wed, Oct 15, 2025
"In the centuries-old library of Wellington University, silence has a pulse. When graduate researcher Clara Haines discovers a book that rearranges its words to mirror her thoughts, her quest for knowledge becomes a descent into something alive - and hungry. The deeper she reads, the more the library remembers her. But some texts were never meant to be read... and some readers were never meant to leave."
The Dead Library is a slow-burning supernatural horror about curiosity, consciousness, and the price of knowing too much.Clara Haines
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