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The Thirteenth Page
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the silent halls of St. Aldwyn's Archive, where dust gathers like secrets and the walls breathe with the weight of centuries, Evelyn Ross stumbles upon a diary that should not exist. Its cover is warped, its spine gleams faintly as if alive, and inside-written in fresh, black ink-appears her own name. From that moment, nothing in her life remains untouched.
The Thirteenth Page is a chilling descent into the terrifying intimacy between reader and text. Every page Evelyn turns is another fragment of her fate already written, another thread binding her to the dark will of the diary. What begins as curiosity soon twists into obsession, as whispers follow her in the night, shadows take shape in her dorm, and words appear in her notebooks that she has not written. The diary does not record the past-it scripts the future, and Evelyn is both subject and scribe.
As she searches for answers, Evelyn discovers she is not the first to fall into the diary's grasp. A vanished writer, Jonah Gray, once tried to resist and failed. Librarians who swore to contain the book whisper of the ink that breathes, of words that outlive their authors, and of endings that can never be written. Each revelation drags Evelyn deeper, until even her dreams become pages and her blood carries lines of text.
Part gothic horror, part psychological thriller, and part metafictional nightmare, The Thirteenth Page asks what happens when stories refuse to end-and when reading itself becomes a trap. With each chapter, the boundary between Evelyn's reality and the diary's command blurs. Her friendships fray, her sanity cracks, and the Archive itself begins to turn against her. Yet the diary offers her one impossible choice: to surrender, or to write the ending it demands.
Viktoryia Konan delivers a haunting tale of obsession, literature, and survival that lingers long after the final page. Fans of The Silent Patient, House of Leaves, and The Haunting of Hill House will find themselves ensnared by this novel's relentless atmosphere and lyrical terror. The Thirteenth Page is not just a book you read-it is a book that reads you.
Will Evelyn escape the diary's grasp, or will her name be written into its final silence forever?
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