by Tim Clemons
A small town in North Georgia finds itself the focal point of a massive supernatural event. We learn about the events through a journal kept by a man who finds himself in one horrible situation after another, just trying to get from point A to point B, and survive zombies, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and a strangely helpful demon. Toss in some angry locals and the US. Army, it may be more than he can stand. Why is all this happening? How will he survive? What is squatching orange? Read on to find out!
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
6%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Mystery → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Mystery + Adventure + Action (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#5862 of 12,382 · 5812 below RS #50
By genre
beats 18% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 19% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
