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Idol
Paperback
HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Antillas Publishing House
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She's everything you ever wanted. And she's finally coming for you.
Chloe is a content moderator for a global streaming giant, a digital janitor scrubbing the internet's darkest corners. Her world changes when she's assigned to Mimi-Chan, a viral VTuber whose porcelain anime avatar has captured the hearts of millions.
But the avatar is glitching.
Between the frames of Mimi-Chan's upbeat dances, Chloe sees something else: a distorted, impossible anatomy that defies digital logic. Soon, the 'jokes' Mimi-Chan tells during her streams start coming true. Obsessive fans are dying in accidents that mirror the avatar's glitches, and Mimi-Chan knows secrets about Chloe that haven't been shared online.
The idol isn't a human performer in a suit. She is a digital tulpa-an entity fed by the collective obsession of her audience. Now, she is ready to cross the boundary from the screen into the room.
A bone-chilling descent into digital madness. Idol explores the toxic void of parasocial relationships and the terrifying truth that some ghosts are born from code.
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