The Last Silent Night-Sample
Charlie’s breath came in short, panicked gasps as she jolted upright in bed, the remnants of her nightmare still clawing at her consciousness. Sweat clung to her skin, making the air feel colder. Her fingers shook as they reached for the journal, she had left it on the nightstand. Laura had documented the eerie whispers of her subconscious, the dreams that seemed far too real.
The nightmare didn’t follow rules. It came snarling, split her open from the inside. Laura was there, caught in the same torment, her presence was raw. They were bound not by comfort, but by the torment Laura etched in the journal. Laura was staring at her, her eyes were dark, filled with something disturbingly creepy. Laura had spoken to her. Not in the words Charlie had read, but in her mind, something twisted, something warning her.
"You think you know me? You think you know how this ends?"
Laura’s voice had echoed through the dream, pulsating with an odd distortion, as if the words had come from deep within the forest. Charlie had tried to wake up then, willing herself out of the nightmare's grasp, but she had been paralyzed. She watched, helpless, as Laura reached for her with her fingers elongated and grotesque, her smile stretching beyond the realm of human possibility.
And then came the most horrifying part, the moment where Charlie felt herself slipping from dream to reality. She had heard something in the shadows of her room. A whisper. A creaking floorboard. The sensation of unseen eyes watching her.
Charlie shook her head and tried to force herself to focus on the present. The room was silent except for the howling of the wind. But her nerves refused to settle. With a shaky exhale, she flipped open her laptop and typed out everything she could remember, the words Laura had spoken, the expression on her face, and the fear that had bound Charlie within her own nightmare.
As she began to write, a chill prickled at the base of her spine. For the first time in her writing career, she felt something she had never imagined possible. Not ownership over her story. Not control. But fear. Real unrelenting fear.
The Last Silent Night -Synopsis
Some stories are meant to be left behind. But what if the past won’t let you escape?
After her painful divorce, Charlie Sinclair just wants to escape—escape the memories, escape her ex, and escape the suffocating silence of the holiday season. When a mysterious journal is left on her doorstep, she’s drawn to it, intrigued by its horrific nature. Thinking it might help her with her writer’s block, she rents a remote cabin in Maine, hoping the isolation will give her the peace she desperately needs.
The journal is a chilling account of a woman stalked and tormented by a man whose obsession grows darker with each page. At first, Charlie believes it's just a dark piece of fiction, an inspiration for a best-selling novel. But soon, the terrifying events in the journal begin to happen to her. The feeling of being watched. The sounds in the night make her blood run cold. And the shadows in the corners of the cabin seem to move when she’s not looking.
The deeper Charlie gets into the journal, the more she begins to lose herself. Her thoughts grow frantic and paranoia creeps in like a sickness. The line between what’s real and what’s written on those pages begins to blur. Is it all in her head, or is someone, or something, truly out to get her?
This Christmas, Charlie Sinclair will learn that some stories don’t just haunt you, they want to kill you.