Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The World Turns Red by Tim Waggoner

Welcome to the meat room.

At first, it’s a whisper on the edge of your consciousness.

As it gets louder, you begin to make out words—dark, sharp, dangerous words… You clap your hands over your ears to shut them out, but you can’t escape what comes from inside you.

The voice tells you to do things to yourself. Bad things. Awful things…The longer you listen, the more they seem reasonable. Desirable.

Inevitable.

And as you reach for the nearest knife, gun, or rope, the voice speaks the last four words you’ll ever

All hail the Unhigh.



This novella is a quick and gruesome story that packs a lot of horror into eighty-something pages.

Lewis Cooper is in the midst of an ordinary day, grading essays on his laptop, when he happens to look out the window and see his neighbor fashioning a noose on his oak tree. What follows is a rash of suicides that spread like a plague, seeming to travel everywhere Lewis goes. 

Is Lewis immune, or is he somehow the catalyst? We learn the truth through flashbacks to his traumatic childhood and how these events shaped the man he is today. There were times I was not sure what was really happening and what was only inside his damaged mind.

This is a very dark, intense read with a surreal quality that pulled me in from page one and held me spellbound to the bitter end.

4 out of 5 stars

My thanks to Cemetery Dance Publications.

Get a copy

About the author

No comments:

Post a Comment