Scarcity Screams

By Matthew Petchinsky

When the city begins to starve, the first thing to break isn't the supply chain-it's the human mind.

In Scarcity Screams, a haunting psychological horror unfolds as a mysterious "sound" spreads through the population, driving ordinary people into paranoia, violence, and unbearable guilt. The more they hear it, the more it accuses them: you took too much... you deserve less... someone else should live instead of you.

Nurse Elara Morn, partially deaf and strangely resistant to the full force of the phenomenon, becomes an unwilling witness to the unraveling of civilization. As riots erupt, cults rise, and hidden systems of suffering are exposed beneath the city, she uncovers a terrifying truth-this scream is not just heard... it is learned.

Descending into blood-soaked chambers and confronting the horrifying machinery behind the noise, Elara must make an impossible choice: silence the source through death, or risk unleashing something far worse into the human psyche.

But even if the sound is stopped... what happens when it's already inside us?

Dark, brutal, and deeply unsettling, Scarcity Screams is a gothic horror experience that will leave you questioning survival, morality, and the true cost of being alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GX518VCM
• ISBN13: 9798349272547
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"