by JPL
The thing in your childhood bedroom. The sound inside the walls. The smile you saw at the edge of the treeline before you convinced yourself you hadn't. You told yourself it wasn't real. You were wrong. It was simply waiting.DORMANT collects ten horror stories from the edges of ordinary life — a young woman scratching her skin raw under the weight of a stress that has taken on a life of its own, a mountain cave sealed by avalanche, a safari gone wrong, a perfect home with one forbidden room, a small California town where two children were left alone for the summer and the owls had human faces. Across continents and centuries, across childhood and adulthood, the same truth holds: nothing that finds you came from nowhere.It was dormant. Now it isn't.
