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The Dusk General Store

The Dusk General Store

by kale0111

FantasyGrimdarkHorrorMale LeadMystery
Rising Stars:Horror #25
On Rising Stars: Horror #25

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.

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RS Days
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Total Chapters
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#TitleWordsFK GradeDialogueSSPVariation
1(English)Chapter 1 — Night Shift Clerk(English)—----
2Chapter 2 — The Middle-Aged Man—----
3Chapter 3 — Cause of Death—----
4Chapter 4 — What He Left Behind—----
5Chapter 5 — Stiff Neck—----
6Chapter 6 — The Corner Stop—----
7Chapter 7 — Words on the Mirror—----
8Chapter 8 — Who Was in the Room—----
9Chapter 9 — Frightened Soul—----
10Chapter 10 — Footprints and Numbers—----
11Chapter 11 — Tangled Web—----
12Chapter 12 — The Strange Detective Thorne—----
13Chapter 13 — Sleep Paralysis—----
14Chapter 14 — Ghost Kiss—----
15Chapter 15 — Ms. Vance Uses a Silver Mirror?—----
16Chapter 16 — Apartment Nightmare—----
17Chapter 17 — Day of Terror—----
18Chapter 18 — The Mysterious Man—----
19Chapter 19 — The Uncle Appears—----
20Chapter 20 — Cedar Valley—----
21Chapter 21 — The Ghost Village—----
22Chapter 22 — Ms. Vance Is Dead?—----
23Chapter 23 — Dead for Years—----
24Chapter 24 — Negotiating with the Ghost—----
25Chapter 25 — A Night of Terror—----
26Chapter 26 — The Mysterious Text—----
27Chapter 27 — Ghosts—----
28Chapter 28 — The Mysterious Man—----
29Chapter 29 — Fighting for It—----
30Chapter 30 — True and False—----
31Chapter 31 — The Uncle's Explanation—----
32Chapter 32 — Westwood Cemetery—----
33Chapter 33 — Ghost Mountain—----
34Chapter 34 — Ghosts on the Mountain—----
35Chapter 35 — The Uncle Is Gone—----
36Chapter 36 — Another Death—----
37Chapter 37 — The Person Behind It All—----
38Chapter 38 — Thorne Confesses—----
39Chapter 39 — The De Montfort Estate—----
40Chapter 40 — Spirit Line—----
41Chapter 41 — All Fake—----
42Chapter 42 — Ms. Vance Saved Me—----
43Chapter 43 — Ms. Vance Is Hurt—----
44Chapter 44 — Direct Confrontation—----
45Chapter 45 — Strange Photos—----
46Chapter 46 — Beast—----
47Chapter 47 — Solar Fire—----
48Chapter 48 — Five Ghost Places—----
49Chapter 49 — The Second Ghost—----
50Chapter 50 — Wild Hunt Night—----
51Chapter 51 — Return to Cedar Hollow—----
52Chapter 52 — Ghost Bus—----
53Chapter 53 — Sudden Attack—----
54Chapter 54 — The Headless Corpse—----
55Chapter 55 — Again Because of Me?—----
56Chapter 56 — Strange Happenings—----
57Chapter 57 — The Reanimation—----
58Chapter 58 — Ms. Vance's House—----
59Chapter 59 — The Missing Corpse—----
60Chapter 60 — Inescapable Fate—----
61Chapter 61 — Like Me—----
62Chapter 62 — Sun-Blood Stone—----
63Chapter 63 — Careful, Careful, Again Careful—----
64Chapter 64 — Raise?—----
65Chapter 65 — Who's Behind Ms. Vance?—----
66Chapter 66 — The Little Boy Returns—----
67Chapter 67 — Tangled Relations—----
68Chapter 68 — Plea for Help—----
69Chapter 69 — No Soul—----
70Chapter 70 — Vengeful Ghost at the Door—----
71Chapter 71 — Ms. Vance Confesses—----
72Chapter 72 — The Death Sigil—----
73Chapter 73 — My Death Day—----
74Chapter 74 — The Walking Lantern—----
75Chapter 75 — Going It Alone—----
76Chapter 76 — The Netherworld Banquet—----
77Chapter 77 — The Eerie Man—----
78Chapter 78 — I Am Not Me—----
79Chapter 79 — Ms. Vance Arrives—----
80Chapter 80 — The Soulless Man—----
81Chapter 81 — Cause and Effect—----
82Chapter 82 — Connected to a Woman—----
83Chapter 83 — Ms. Vance Again—----
84Chapter 84 — The Curse Continues—----
85Chapter 85 — No Coincidences—----
86Chapter 86 — The Vengeful Ghost Returns—----
87Chapter 87 — A Deal—----
88Chapter 88 — Cruel Death—----
89Chapter 89 — Whip Her—----
90Chapter 90 — Mysterious Photos—----
91Chapter 91 — Deal Struck—----
92Chapter 92 — Time Off to Go Home—----
93Chapter 93 — Mysterious Marcus—----
94Chapter 94 — Lost Soul—----
95Chapter 95 — Stranger and Stranger—----
96Chapter 96 — Hearse—----
97Chapter 97 — Strange Things Continue—----
98Chapter 98 — Unknown Death—----
99Chapter 99 — Threshold Walker—----
100Chapter 100 — Deceived Again—----
101Chapter 101 — Mass Grave—----
102Chapter 102 — A Standoff Turns Ugly—----
103Chapter 103 — Scaring the Ghosts—----
104Chapter 104 — The Ghost Mentor—----
105Chapter 105 — A Game Within a Game—----
106Chapter 106 — I Got a Date—----
107Chapter 107 — Sharing a Room—----
108Chapter 108 — Alone Together—----
109Chapter 109 — Killing Frost—----
110Chapter 110 — Genevieve Arrives—----
111Chapter 111 — Ms. Vance Is the Killer—----
112Chapter 112 — The Vengeful Ghost Strikes First—----
113Chapter 113 — Fierce Battle with the Female Ghost—----
114Chapter 114 — Not Frost—----
115Chapter 115 — The Soul-Seizing Needle—----
116Chapter 116 — The Curse of the Soul Cycle—----
117Chapter 117 — The Eerie Photograph—----