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Lurking In The Shadows: Reptilian: A Dark Horror Series About Survival, Trauma, and Monsters
Paperback
Series: Lurking in the Shadows, Book 8
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This episode is part of Lurking in the Shadows: Season 1, an anthology of standalone horror stories. Each episode tells a complete story and can be read in any order. While the episodes do not share continuity, the season concludes with a brief post-credit moment that subtly hints at a larger world. The series transitions into a shared universe beginning in Season 2.
Love can be quiet. It can grow without warning, settle in the background, and change the way a person sees everything around them. Most people move through it and come out the other side. Some don't.
Grayson thought what he felt was simple. A girl he couldn't stop thinking about. A chance he might take if the moment felt right. A feeling that stayed longer than it should have.
Then Easter break comes, and a weekend at Canyon Lake pulls him closer to something he doesn't understand. What starts as a quiet obsession begins to shift. Small moments turn into assumptions. Assumptions turn into certainty. And certainty turns into something far worse.
Beneath the lake, something ancient waits. Buried, sealed, and untouched for longer than anyone can imagine.
When the truth finally surfaces, it comes too late.
What follows is not just violence. It is transformation. Something awakens in the dark. Something that does not think the way people do. Something that does not stop.
Reptilian is a grounded, brutal descent into obsession, consequence, and the thin line between human and something else entirely. Set within the Lurking in the Shadows universe, this story blends psychological tension with raw creature horror, leading into the next chapter of a nightmare that refuses to end.
Some mistakes can't be undone.
Some things don't stay buried.
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