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The Whole Town Sleeps: "I never thought a dream could keep us alive - now I know why I must sleep."
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 24 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Whole Town Sleeps
A Folk Horror Novel by Grimoiresque
Mirna is a quiet, rational schoolteacher looking for a fresh start. When she takes a job in a remote Eastern European mountain village, she expects silence, snow, and simple routines.
Instead, she finds whispered warnings, strange traditions, and a monthly ritual no one dares break.
Every full moon, one villager is chosen to sleep. Not just rest-but fall into a deep, unnatural coma. The town says this sleep is necessary. That it keeps something at bay. Something that lives beyond the woods. Something that must not be woken.
At first, Mirna doesn't believe a word of it. But when she's named the next dreamer, she has no choice but to face the truth-about the village, the legend, and what waits for her in the dark.
Why is she the one chosen?
What is she supposed to see in her sleep?
And what if this time... the dream isn't enough?
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