The Monitor

von Ziad Jweiles

324 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some things don't need to be believed in. They only need someone to love.For eighteen years, Frank Walker has told the same story to anyone who would sit still long enough to hear it: that something ancient and patient took everyone he ever loved, one person at a time, and left him standing to grieve every single time.No one believed him. The police didn't. The doctors didn't. Four researchers came before Nathan Cole, and all four left within a session or two; spooked by something none of them ever spoke of again.Nathan doesn't believe him either. Not at first. He's a psychology graduate student writing his thesis on treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and Frank Walker is exactly the case study he needs: institutionalized since 1985, convicted of nothing, found not guilty by reason of insanity for a death that destroyed the last family he had left.But delusions don't leave evidence. They don't turn up, independently and centuries apart, in a monk's account of a plague year, a diary from the night London burned, and an oral history tape recorded before Frank Walker was even born.And they don't watch back.As Nathan gets closer to Frank than any researcher ever has - closer than is safe, closer than either of them will admit - he starts to understand exactly what the old man has been trying to warn him about since their very first session. The thing in the woods was never choosing its victims at random. It was waiting for whoever loved Frank enough to come looking.THE MONITOR is a slow-burn psychological horror novel about grief, belief, and the terrible cost of finally being heard - for readers of quiet, patient cosmic dread, and anyone who checks the dark corners of the room before turning the next page.

Content Advisory: The Monitor is a work of psychological horror intended for mature audiences. It contains graphic depictions of violence, heavy gore, murder, substance abuse, psychosis, severe depression, addiction, and suicide. For those sensitive to these themes, reader discretion is advised.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175157650
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published