Please Stop Me: Behind the Butcher

By Jake Skinner

Edward Hawthorne doesn't feel pain.
Not physically. Not emotionally. Not the way other people do.

Behind the grease-stained uniform of a small-town mechanic, Edward hides a dark obsession: the shape of suffering, the art of control, the possibility that agony-sculpted just right-can reveal something true.

They call him the Barbed Butcher.

He doesn't mind.

But when a new detective arrives in Oakwood and begins asking the right questions, Edward sees something different. She isn't just a threat. She might be the first person capable of understanding him. Maybe even the one he's been waiting for.

As the town begins to whisper and the shadows close in, Edward must decide whether to silence the world around him-or shape it into something worthy of being remembered.

Darkly poetic, chillingly intimate, and unflinchingly brutal, Please Stop Me - Behind the Butcher is a psychological horror novel that blurs the line between madness and masterpiece.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPC8Q4D9
• ISBN13: 9798283941516
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"