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When October Wakes
Paperback
Publisher: Sacred Storylines
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When October Wakes is a collection of quietly unsettling stories for readers who listen for what lingers beneath the surface.
These are not stories built on shock or spectacle.
They unfold slowly-through memory, atmosphere, and the uneasy recognition that something is not quite right.
Set in familiar places-small towns, ordinary homes, remembered seasons-each piece explores what happens when the past stirs, when silence speaks, and when the boundary between the living and the remembered thins. Some stories lean toward the eerie, others toward grief, longing, or moral reckoning. All of them trust the reader to meet them halfway.
This collection was written for those who:
- are drawn to October not for fear, but for its honesty
- love stories that leave space for reflection
- prefer suggestion over explanation
- believe the most haunting things are often the most human
When October Wakes is best read slowly.
In lamplight.
With pauses between stories.
It belongs to the season of shadows-but it is ultimately about memory, conscience, and the quiet persistence of the soul.
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