The Light That Watches: Para-Tech Horror Stories
What if the world is looking back?
In The Light That Watches, eighteen para-tech horror stories explore the places where reality thins-at thresholds and seams-until attention itself becomes dangerous. Doors breathe. Mirrors stall a half-second too long. Time returns for another pass. Memories reorder themselves to fit a plan you didn't make. Whether it's a simulation that knows your name, a town that keeps guiding you to the same square, or an AI quietly counting harvest, every tale asks the same question: who are you when you know you're being seen?
"Para-tech horror" lives where physics, code, and the uncanny meet. These stories trade jump scares for precision-patient dread, exact details, and choices that turn on hinges, not switches. Across the collection, a recurring "watcher" motif ties the pieces together, reminding us that observation changes outcomes-and ethics still matter under uncertainty.
You'll encounter:
doorways that remember which angle you used,
loops that prove what you are when given a second shot,
a universe that inhales and exhales through the stars,
ancestors who refuse to stay put,
an agriculture too perfect to be natural.
For readers who like their horror intelligent, intimate, and quietly relentless, The Light That Watches offers a ledger of hauntings for the age of algorithms-eighteen precise, unsettling entries that leave you standing at the threshold, deciding your angle.
Step over carefully. The room is paying attention.
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