The Light That Watches

By Tony Brooks

Switches choose light. Keys choose doors. Breath returns on time-until it doesn't.

The Light That Watches gathers eighteen precise, unnerving stories where technology and the paranormal share one motive: attention. Hallway mirrors lag like guilty consciences. Code compiles you. A time loop keeps its appointment. Ancestors ignore linearity. The universe exhales-and the watcher breathes with it.

These aren't gore machines; they're instruments. The terror lives in thresholds and seams: a doorjamb that remembers, a reflection that learns, a subway window that refuses to be glass. Loops aren't glitches but proofs. Choices aren't switches but hinges. Exactness-the discipline to name a light's temperature, a shadow's angle-becomes survival.

Written in spare, musical prose, the collection closes with a craft-and-ethics essay on attention: how to behave in a world that may be recording you with care, not malice. Read singly or in order for a quiet arc from flicker to reckoning.

For readers of Black-Mirror-adjacent dread and literary horror who want modern hauntings with rules-and payoffs. Content note: PG-13 to soft R for intensity and thematic unease; minimal on-page gore.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQHP54V2
• ISBN13: 9798330235858
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Tony Brooks
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"