Horror

Months after crisis, Mara lives as the town’s living registry—tending trays, speaking names, and keeping a fragile civic balance. The municipal reforms have steadied public record, but small erasures persist; Mara’s own private memories have thinned. The final chapter follows her vigil as the town adapts to a new, uneasy normal.

In a town where civic papers anchor reality, records clerk Mara Lyle finds her sister’s file erased and memories fading. She uncovers an Index that trades names like currency. Determined to restore Liza, Mara confronts a ledger that balances existence with ruthless arithmetic.

A young sound archivist returns to a salt-bitten town to digitize tapes in a condemned library. The building hums with dry pipes and borrowed voices. With a janitor’s beeswax and an analog recorder, she descends into the drained reservoir to confront what listens back and wears her name.

A young sound archivist travels to a near-arctic island to catalog reels in an abandoned listening post, only to find voices that know her name. With a ferryman’s bone tuning fork and a caretaker’s notes, she faces a cistern that learned to speak—and must make it forget her.

Iris Kane, a young audio archivist in a salt-scraped port city, discovers lacquer cylinders that swallow names. As voices vanish, she and a retired engineer use an old tuner to coax memory back, paying costs in a trade of voices and learning the fragile ethics of preserving speech.

A young sound designer enters the stairways of an old tenement to rescue her vanished friend and confront a creature that feeds on voices. Armed with a listening stone, a salvaged spool, and fragile courage, she must bind hunger with sound and choose what to sacrifice.

Leah Hargrove, a young sound restorer, inherits a coastal house whose brass machine keeps 'hours' by extracting silence and hoarding voices. To save a town's softened noises she must bargain with the house's ledger, face a ledger-shadow, and trade time for memory.

Urban acoustics graduate Mara Chen and former opera sound engineer Edda Volkov confront a sentient resonance nesting under a derelict opera house. When Mara’s friend vanishes, the city’s echoes turn predatory. Armed with a tuning fork and a makeshift phase inverter, they detune the hall before demolition—and learn how to let rooms be empty.

In a near-future city's abandoned subway, maintenance tech Maya trades a memory to rescue missing workers from a machine that devours names and voices. As she learns the system's appetite for forgetting, she must choose what to sacrifice and how to protect the city's fragile language.

A 24-year-old field recordist hears a low tone seeping into all her sounds. When a friend vanishes inside a derelict flax mill, she enters the humming factory armed with a tuning fork and a homemade oscillator. In a city that remembers voices, she must refuse her own to survive.

A young photographer investigates a crumbling apartment block where something in the walls calls people by name at 3:17 a.m. With a caretaker’s iron, an old woman’s charms, and a brave kid’s help, she faces the seam behind the paint. She must not answer—only listen, count, and close.

A conservator of photographs unearths an album that eats memory. As faces return to prints, something in the city grows hungry. To stop it she bargains with an old seeing glass, and pays a private price. A horror about what we keep and what we lose to save others.

In a fogbound city, a young archivist discovers a forbidden tape that erases names and memory. Joined by a retired engineer and volunteers, she must confront an experimental transmitter turned ravenous. A nightly struggle to reclaim voices becomes a cost paid in small, ordinary losses.

Night-shift dispatcher Mira answers a whisper no system can trace: a child warning of something in the vents of a condemned tower across the harbor. Defying protocol, she enters the building with a lineman’s test set and an old man’s advice—keep talking. In the hush that feeds on silence, her voice becomes the weapon.

A young field recordist travels to a remote island to investigate a tape that erases memory. As sound turns predatory, she must trade a cherished memory to save others and seal the thing beneath the sea. A moral, sensory horror about listening and loss.