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Schief: Askew, Distorted, Warped
Paperback
HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Anthony Dicristofano
Published: Oct 8 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the silence of the Northwoods, Stillwater Lake keeps its secrets. Beneath its glassy surface, something unnatural stirs-a presence born from grief, decay, and the slow unraveling of a man's soul.
Corby Schieffen inherits his family's bait shop along the misted shores of Stillwater, determined to preserve his father's legacy and rebuild a life with the woman he loves. But the lake has changed. The fish have vanished, the townsfolk drift away, and hope erodes with every empty ledger.
Desperation drives Corby toward a dangerous experiment-one that blurs the line between science and madness. As the waters begin to respond, life returns to the lake, and with it, something else. Something ancient, hungry, and reflective of the rot within.
Told in haunting, poetic prose, Schief: Askew is a meditation on legacy, obsession, and the quiet horror that grows from desperation. It is not a tale of monsters lurking in the dark-it is a slow awakening to the truth that the most terrifying creations are the ones we summon ourselves.
For readers drawn to psychological horror, literary atmosphere, and existential dread, Schief: Askew offers a deeply human descent-where nature and conscience twist together, and redemption may no longer be possible.
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