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Who is Wearing a Human Mask?: A Tragedy in Twelve Faces
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Who is Wearing a Human Mask?
A Tragedy in Twelve Faces
Fame has a face. And it hungers.
1957 Hollywood is a beautiful corpse, rotting beneath the glow of its own lights. Ellis Vale, a struggling actor with nothing but failed auditions and fractured dreams, stumbles into a forgotten motel on the outskirts of the city-and into a nightmare stitched from old scripts and older demons.
Inside a rusted vent, Ellis finds the lost journals of Maxwell Shaw, a silent film icon who vanished decades ago under whispers of occult rituals and madness. What Ellis believes is a script becomes a summoning. A name is spoken. A mouth not his begins to move.
Asabake-a shape-shifting, face-stealing entity born from obsession and lust-awakens.
As Ellis begins to climb the glittering ladder of fame, stars start to die. Faces go missing. Applause turns into screams. And in mirrors, he no longer sees himself-but the stitched-together fragments of every soul Asabake has devoured.
Hollywood becomes a hunting ground. Love corrodes. Identity shatters. And the spotlight becomes a tomb.
In this slow-burning descent into psychological horror, identity, desire, and the corruption of fame blur beyond recognition. What begins as a dream becomes a possession. What wears the mask... is no longer human.
Psychological horror
Demonic possession
Atmospheric horror
Hollywood thriller
Identity horror
Grimdark fiction
1950s occult
Supernatural thriller
Face-stealing demon
Fame and madness
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