Who is Wearing a Human Mask?: A Tragedy in Twelve Faces

By Grimoiresque

Who is Wearing a Human Mask?
A Tragedy in Twelve Faces

Fame has a face. And it hungers.

1957 Hollywood is a beautiful corpse, rotting beneath the glow of its own lights. Ellis Vale, a struggling actor with nothing but failed auditions and fractured dreams, stumbles into a forgotten motel on the outskirts of the city-and into a nightmare stitched from old scripts and older demons.

Inside a rusted vent, Ellis finds the lost journals of Maxwell Shaw, a silent film icon who vanished decades ago under whispers of occult rituals and madness. What Ellis believes is a script becomes a summoning. A name is spoken. A mouth not his begins to move.

Asabake-a shape-shifting, face-stealing entity born from obsession and lust-awakens.

As Ellis begins to climb the glittering ladder of fame, stars start to die. Faces go missing. Applause turns into screams. And in mirrors, he no longer sees himself-but the stitched-together fragments of every soul Asabake has devoured.

Hollywood becomes a hunting ground. Love corrodes. Identity shatters. And the spotlight becomes a tomb.

In this slow-burning descent into psychological horror, identity, desire, and the corruption of fame blur beyond recognition. What begins as a dream becomes a possession. What wears the mask... is no longer human.

Psychological horror

Demonic possession

Atmospheric horror

Hollywood thriller

Identity horror

Grimdark fiction

1950s occult

Supernatural thriller

Face-stealing demon

Fame and madness

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FB8CV3BT
• ISBN13: 9798285487852
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"