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The Night Doctor
Paperback
Publisher: Paul Bartlett
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 524
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
St. Jude Hospital never truly sleeps.
It watches. It waits.
Desperate for work and running from a past soaked in regret, Michael Hayes accepts a night security position at a decaying psychiatric hospital on the edge of a dying city. The rules are simple: follow your route, don't ask questions, and never - under any circumstances - enter Room 117.
At first, the job is just long hours and flickering lights. But as the nights drag on, Michael begins to notice things that don't add up: corridors that shift, patients who disappear from records, bodies that are still warm long after death. Staff members avoid certain floors. The hospital seems to breathe when no one is looking.
And then there's Dr. Reynolds, the man who hired him, whose calm authority masks something far more unsettling.
As Michael's grip on reality begins to fracture, memories surface that refuse to stay buried: a failed marriage, a son he no longer knows, and the creeping suspicion that the hospital isn't just observing him - it's shaping him.
Some doors are locked for a reason. Some rules exist to keep things contained. And some places don't let you leave once they've decided you belong.
THE NIGHT DOCTOR is a slow-burn psychological horror novel about guilt, addiction, institutional rot, and the terrifying cost of forgetting who you are - perfect for fans of unsettling hospital horror, liminal spaces, and dread that crawls under your skin and stays there.
Once you enter St. Jude...
the nights never really end.
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