The Author

It begins with a newspaper comic. Then the words begin to change.

A strange story about trolls, living shadows, and a mysterious goat on a bridge starts occupying more than its allotted space in the morning paper. Readers cannot stop thinking about it. Sleep brings disturbing dreams-and strangers begin describing the same nightmares.

Soon, the changes reach beyond the newspaper. Books, shipping labels, recipes, and ordinary household warnings carry messages no one remembers writing. Something calling itself the Author seems to know its readers personally.

Professor Elias Blackwood and his team search for the source. But every discovery raises another question, and every person who retells the story may draw someone else into its reach. As exhaustion and fear spread, even the investigators struggle to trust what they read-and what they remember.

Who is the Author? What does he want? And how do you find someone who can answer you from almost any page?

George S. Lust blends supernatural suspense, psychological horror, and dark humor in a novel where familiar words become deeply unfamiliar-and putting down the book may no longer be enough.