Penpal

Written by Dathan Auerbach

A man pieces together unsettling childhood memories and finds a horror he never knew.

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252 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Trying to make sense of strange, unsettling memories from his childhood, a man begins to reconstruct his past. The games and adventures of his youth turn out to belong to a larger, darker story, and each chapter fills in another piece of the puzzle. Begun as a series of posts on an online horror forum, the novel builds toward a revelation the narrator never saw coming.

From the publisher

In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected. Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.

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