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The Mouse Within: A Short Horror Story to Read in the Dark
Paperback
Series: Bedtime Stories from Hell, Book 1
Publisher: Hollow Black
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It's not a costume. It's a parasite. And it's HUNGRY.
Daniel isn't looking for trouble-just a distraction. A quiet house. A fading marriage. A hollow life. So when he finds a scorched, half-melted box at a garage sale, he buys it without thinking.
Inside is a mouse costume: filthy, matted, and far too warm to the touch. It whispers his name. It remembers the last man who wore it. A man who vanished without a trace.
Now... the scratching in the walls won't stop. The heat under Daniel's skin keeps rising. The dreams are getting darker. And the costume? It doesn't come off. Because it was never meant to be worn. It was meant to... become.
As reality blurs with nightmare, Daniel can no longer distinguish what's real and what's delusion. The boundaries between himself and the costume dissolve, leaving him trapped in a waking hallucination where truth and fantasy merge into one terrible, inescapable fate.
The Mouse Within is a bite-sized horror story for listeners who love cursed objects, possession, slow-burn body horror, and psychological descent. This is a short horror story to listen to in the dark-if you dare. A chilling tale from the Bedtime Stories from Hell series, perfect for fans of The Fly, The Babadook, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and The Thing.
Part of Bedtime Stories from Hell-a twisted anthology of standalone horror stories designed to make sure you never sleep peacefully again.
Narrated by Hollow Black-your host from the darkest corners of bedtime hell.
Read in the dark. If you dare. And whatever you do... don't put it on.
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