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Mercy Has Left the Building
Paperback
Series: The Screw Turns, Book 7
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Humphrey Archer
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When fate grants your wish, it never gives you what you want-only what you deserve.
Welcome to The Screw Turns, Vol. 7, a darkly delicious collection of morbid tales where justice is accidental, karma is cruel, and every choice comes with a price. Fans describe this series as Final Destination meets The Monkey's Paw with medical realism, a twisted grin, and no supernatural cheat codes.
Each standalone story begins with an ordinary person-a bully, a jerk, a thief, a predator, or simply someone having a very bad day. Then, through a perfect storm of coincidence, human flaw, and razor-sharp plausibility, the universe turns the screw... and the consequences are fatal, ironic, or grimly hilarious.
Inside you'll find:
- A cyberbully influencer who wakes up inside a gift he can't escape
- Kitchen tyrants who discover that pathology scissors cut both ways
- A wheelchair-using scientist who witnesses a murder no one will ever trace
- A crooked hospital auditor undone by the very system he manipulated
- An office creep, a nail gun, and a spectacular misunderstanding
- Explosions, poisonings, freezers, implosions, and more-all based on real-world facts
These stories are tragedies more than horror-intimate, realistic, and laced with irony, subtle humor, and the quiet satisfaction of seeing karma arrive not as a ghost... but as physics, probability, and human stupidity.
Written by Humphrey Archer, whose work appears in Physician's Weekly and draws from decades of medical-safety expertise, this collection blends dark fiction with frightening plausibility. No gore for gore's sake, no supernatural rescues-just tightly wound tales of people whose fateful wishes, petty cruelties, or careless habits meet consequences they never saw coming.
If you love Roald Dahl's adult stories, Poe's inevitability, Edward Gorey's dry wit, and the chilling realism of it could happen to anyone... you're in the right place.
Turn the page. The next screw is waiting.
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