The Hatchling Room

By Angela Babcock

Some rooms are built to protect. Others are built to trap.

Seventeen-year-old Anjelia always thought the secret room behind her

attic wall was a gift - the hidden playroom her father built for her

when she was eight, full of toys that never aged and silence that felt

alive.

Then something breaks into her house in the middle of the night, and

she and her nine-year-old brother Ricardo have no choice but to hide

inside it.

But the Hatchling Room is not a sanctuary. It is a seal - built to

contain something ancient that feeds on children's laughter,

imagination, and fear. And Anjelia, who played and laughed inside it

for years, has been feeding it all along.

As the walls begin to breathe and the toys begin to move, Anjelia

uncovers her father's journals and the terrible truth: the thing in

the walls has a name, it remembers her, and it is waking up. When it

offers her an impossible choice - her freedom, or her brother - she

learns what the room was really built for.

A claustrophobic horror novella about the places that keep us safe and

the things they keep inside.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQG2115L
• ISBN13: 9798183013658
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Babcock Press
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"