The Cabin Game

By Dinesh Deckker

Twenty years ago, six children played a game at a lake cabin in Ashby Mill, Vermont.

Only five came home.

Danny Harlow was eight years old when his sister Jess told him to hide and wait for her. Then the others grew cold, got bored, and left him behind. They told the town he had wandered away during the Halloween parade. Nobody was found. No one told the truth.

Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Danny's disappearance, the friends who abandoned him are called back to Ashby Mill for Halloween weekend.

At the old cabin, a locked chest holds the papier-m ch masks they wore as children. There is one mask they do not recognise.

Danny's face.

Something in the walls is counting. Something can wear the faces it takes. And when it knocks at the door in the voice of a dead friend, it knows exactly what to say.

To end the game, Jess must find her brother.

But when the hider is found, the rules end too.

The Cabin Game is a chilling adult folk-horror novel of guilt, grief, Halloween rituals, and the terrible price of leaving someone behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ5WCJNM
• ISBN13: 9798264304644
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"