Chain Letter

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Stephen Simpson

When Marlene receives a strange email from an unknown sender—an ominous chain letter with a simple warning: Forward this or something bad will happen—she laughs it off. She’s not superstitious. It's just another urban legend.

That night, something… something unseen begins to stalk her through the empty halls of her home. There’s no help. Only a growing darkness and a sense that someone—or something—is waiting to collect on her mistake.

Across the sea in London, fifteen-year-old E’lisa receives the same message—from her Aunt Adele, but she too dismisses the warning.

By morning, her world begins to collapse.

With reality bending and digital horrors bleeding into the real world, E’lisa and Marlene’s stories intertwine in a terrifying race against time. As their families are drawn into a web of ghostly messages and cursed algorithms, they must uncover the truth behind the chain letter before it spreads beyond control.

Chain Letter is a spine-tingling techno-horror that blends supernatural suspense with the eerie dread of urban legends gone digital. If you’ve ever received a message you weren’t meant to delete… this one’s for you.



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Age restrictions: For ages 13+

Other compliance information: Meets the EU REACH requirements.

Book Details

Imprint : Fiction for the Soul Books

eBook ISBN : 9781393540809

Paperback ISBN : 9781393446910

First Published Date : 30 August 2010

Language : English

Pages : 120

Words : 20,304

Format : ePub & PDF (you own the files)

Read on : Kindle, Apple, Android devices, Google Play Books, Nook, Kobo eReaders, Computers.

Delivery Time and Method : Downloads will be emailed immediately upon purchase.

Keywords : Young Adult Fiction, Paranormal Occult Supernatural, Young Adult Mysteries, Young Adult Thrillers, Young Adult Suspense, Young Adult Supernatural, Young Adult Horror, Young Adult Science Fiction 

Read an excerpt

LONG AGO

Sparks, like bright orange fireflies spiral into the sinister darkness of the night sky, as if funnelled up by an unseen hand from the huge fire in the centre of the imposing mud huts build around it.

The ridges of the mountain surrounding these huts are darkly silhouetted against the black heavens. The heavy drumming and moaning of many voices echo up into the sky and then outwards into the night.

There are no other sounds, no night birds, no crickets, no frogs - they have all hushed their nightly serenades on this night where the moon hangs colossal, round and white in the sky, floating just above the horizon.

The thunderous, continuous rhythm of the drumming stops abruptly as if gulped down by an unnoticed mouth.

A woman walks into the circle. She is tall, pale, and beautiful. The moon reflects off her ebony black hair hanging down to her waist. As she lifts her long, elegant arms up into the air, she screams a blood-curdling scream.

Her face distorts as she screams, turning her once beautiful features into a nightmarish, misshapen façade. Her eyes are deep and black, and reflected within them are the deepest recesses of torment and misery.

She wears a loincloth made from the skin of a leopard around her hips. Her naked breasts sway with her every movement. Around her neck hangs a necklace of leopard's teeth, tightly strung together, representing protection.

Every living being in that circle, around that fire, falls immediately, their bodies flat against the ground. You can taste the fear, thick as peanut butter stuck to your palette.

The fire reflects and dances a frenzied dance in her eyes, making them sparkle with malevolence. She smiles in anticipation for what she knows is coming. Shivering and gyrating, foam coming from her mouth, her eyes roll backwards in their sockets, and she starts to mumble the same incoherent string of words repeatedly.

Six men walk into the circle carrying a wooden board. Their faces are turned downward, their expression and facial features hidden. The glow from the fire shimmers off their brown bodies, glistening with oil.

On the wooden board lays a girl of fifteen. She is dressed in nothing. Her hair is plait with the feathers of many coloured birds. Her face is painted with the warm blood of chickens. She is terrified and frightened.

Her moaning is now the only sound in this hushed space, surrounded by the imposing mud huts. She knows her fate and she has seen many girls go before her, the monthly ritual that feeds their god, a god with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. Her ankles and wrists are dripping with blood from where she fought against the ropes that bind her.