The Silent Patient: A Psychological Horror Novel

By Craig Benjamin

They die in their sleep. No blood. No struggle.
When Seattle homicide detective Megan Roberts discovers the third victim in a week-each one found with their vocal cords extracted in ways that defy medical explanation-she knows she's facing something beyond conventional investigation. The only link: all victims experienced the same nightmare before dying. A hospital that breathes. Corridors that twist into impossible geometries. And something ancient hunting in the spaces between sleep and waking.
Dr. Nadia Thornton has been researching the phenomenon for weeks, haunted by her sister's death twenty-eight years ago...the same impossible extraction, the same seven-day countdown from marking to death. When she discovers Patient Zero-concert violinist Vanessa Cole, comatose for twenty-eight days yet somehow still alive-Nadia believes she's found the key to stopping the killings.
Or maybe she found something else?

The Silent Patient is a visceral descent into cosmic horror that asks: what do you do when the only way to fight is to become the prey? When speaking condemns you to death, and silence means surrender?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQ3TKDMB
• ISBN13: 9798249739669
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"