Snared

<p>Dare to open the door.</p><p>SNARED is a razor-edged collection of modern horror stories where the ordinary-an old mirror a home renovation a morning commute a church sanctuary a trending feed-becomes the threshold to something hungry. Across roughly 52000 words these tales slide from domestic unease into the uncanny with cinematic reveals cruel twists and images that linger like a bad dream.</p><p>A young couple lifts a trapdoor and meets a presence that can't touch them but can make them do anything it wants. A commuter wakes to find his job identity and alibi erased while the evidence insists he murdered his boss that morning. A boutique wall mirror delivers more than décor when a shape behind the glass decides it wants a life and a body of its own. A government behavior lab pitches a flawless neighborhood using soundtracks and signals if a bright teenager will help them keep everyone making the right choice. A hospice nurse's amulet a throne deep in the woods a sealed atomic-age coffin a smiling stranger in the apocalypse a livestream that never logs off and a safari stop no one will survive....each story tightens then snaps.</p><p>For readers of Stephen Graham Jones Paul Tremblay and Black Mirror SNARED blends folklore techno-dread and moral reckoning into sharp self-contained shocks that share one obsession: the moment a threshold gives way and the thing on the other side steps through.</p>