The Maze of the Horse-Headed Shadow

By Philip Stengel

A Jungle Horror Thriller by Philip Stengel

When thrill-seeking vlogger Jessa Torres ventures deep into the Sierra Madre with a ragtag crew-a cynical boyfriend, a haunted guide, and a botany-obsessed researcher-she's expecting myth, mystery, and viral footage. What she finds is something far older and far more dangerous than folklore.

Drawn by stories of the Tikbalang, a horse-headed trickster said to trap wanderers in a jungle maze, Jessa documents their trek into the wild for her YouTube audience. But as landmarks repeat, trails vanish, and the forest itself begins to shift, the crew realizes they're not lost-they're being hunted. The jungle is alive, and it plays by rules they don't understand.

Trapped in an ever-tightening loop of fear, hallucination, and hoofbeats in the dark, they must decode the living maze or vanish within it-forever.

Fans of Annihilation, The Ritual, and Southeast Asian mythological horror will devour this visceral, atmospheric descent into madness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6NTSXCK
• ISBN13: 9798281689540
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"