
by kale0111
Six chapters of the audiobook are updated on Patreon punctually every day.Each character has a dedicated voice actor. What would you do if you landed a dream night‑shift job: $4000 a month, free room and board, zero real qualifications required? Ethan Cole jumps at the offer the second he spots the help‑wanted poster out in the quiet suburbs. The boss, the stunning, mysterious Ms. Vance, only gives one weird warning: he needs nerves of steel because some very strange customers show up after dark. No big deal — Ethan’s tough, he pulls all‑nighters all the time. He takes the gig on the spot. But his first night on the job blows his whole world apart. Gliding, legless visitors drift through the convenience store after midnight. A little ghost boy grabs old wind‑up toy soldiers off the back shelves. A gorgeous woman in a blood‑red vintage evening gown floats in without paying for an embroidered handkerchief. And the first paying customer, a middle‑aged man buying vintage Lucky Strike cigarettes, flat‑out tells Ethan to quit this cursed job before he ends up dead. Ethan brushes it off — until he runs into that exact same man the next morning… and learns the guy already committed suicide the day before. Now Ethan’s trapped. Quit, and he dies. Stay, and every night he serves spectral patrons of The Corner Stop. He moves into the free apartment above the shop, only to face fresh horrors: mysterious folded clothes when he passes out asleep, ghost‑kiss lipstick marks he can’t wipe off, iron scissors creeping across his bedroom floor, and cryptic blood‑chilled warnings scrawled across his bathroom mirror: Don’t trust them. Every soul around him hides secrets. Is the alluring Ms. Vance saving him… or feeding him to the dead? Is the supposedly‑deceased former clerk Old Jacob trying to warn him, or lure him to his grave? Even the local detective acts off, and strangers hand out blessed medals that burn to ash whenever deadly spirits draw near. Ethan is tangled in a centuries‑old curse tied to this creepy corner convenience store. Ghosts hunt him from sun‑up to sun‑down. People who merely glimpse the phantoms attached to him wind up dead, his name scrawled in their own blood. He can’t run, he can barely hide, and everyone he meets could be human… or something far worse. Who is really on his side? And what terrible covenant will he break next if he missteps? A spooky, fast‑paced supernatural horror‑thriller packed with twists, uncanny apparitions, constant paranoia, and mounting mortal danger. Every midnight brings new terrors behind the doors of Dusk Convenience Store.
Current
9/18/2026
Peak #23
14d
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Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#7103 of 12,412 · 7053 below RS #50
By genre
beats 96% of similar stories
beats 95% of similar stories
beats 65% of similar stories
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