#1000vultures

[silence-caravan]

Penpal is the scariest shit I have ever read

Holy fucking shit.

[thegrimdarkoffice]

The world is a cruel place, made crueller still by man.

Dathan Auerbach, Penpal: Friends

[doubledaybooks]

In fiction, we want our characters to find love and purpose, to triumph, to improve, to survive. We hope for them despite the impotence of such a thing, despite the absence of all use. It is here, even more than in the lives of those who might have still known where to find the chained Prometheus, that our nature is laid most bare. Where we feel hope for those who have never been, whose lives are made of ink. Like finding faces in smears and stains, it’s built into our lenses, projecting hope onto the world from within our own hearts. It is this futile wishing that tells us that stories are the most human thing – horror most of all.  Horror is about fear. It’s what people look for and what it’s judged by. The measure is old because fear is old. It’s primordial. We felt it before we knew ourselves, before we were ourselves. It drove us scrambling through the trees, grasping for safety. Fear helped us survive long enough to name it.

BAD MAN author Dathan Auerbach on the capacity for hope in horror stories  

[doubledaybooks]

Galleys are in for Reddit sensation Dathan Auerbach’s terrifying new novel BAD MAN. Fans of Stranger Things, Stephen King, and Auerbach’s previous novel PENPAL will love this one...

“They say you've got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear the world apart if there's any chance of putting yours back together. That's your window. That window closed five years ago, leaving Ben's life in ruins. He still looks for his brother. Still searches, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a night stock job at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence. Ben can feel that there's something wrong there. With the people. With his boss. With the graffitied baler that shudders and moans and beckons. There's something wrong with the air itself. He knows he's in the right place now. That the store has much to tell him. So he keeps searching. Keeps looking for his baby brother, while missing the most important message of all: That he should have stopped looking.”

[its-the-unknowing]

13 years later and “Penpal” still breaks my soul and haunts my mind.

[darksomniumnarrations-blog]

CreepyPastas With Original Music "Penpal Series: Foosteps" by 1000Vultures

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Just started the “Penpal” series! Composed a few songs for it too!

[neverendingparable]

The Absolute Worst Idea ever for an AU with Bradley and Ezra would be a Penpal AU.

I dont think I’ll ever have the heart to make it legit, but its just a horrible thought I had and wanted to share. 

Ezra would have to be the narrator then, since he’s bisexual and the narrator in the story dates his friend’s sister. 

That would mean, then, Bradley is the one who ends up in the coffin. 

Gog I hate this idea so much, its the worst. 

[mooviechild]

We all have voids in our narratives – lost time that we attempt to reclaim with best guesses. Most people have whole parts of their stories that they don’t realize are patchworks of guesswork, and those who do realize it aren’t likely to care. We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

Dathan Auerbach (1000vultures)