PENTLOCKIN

A psychological horror that traps its reader inside an urban legend.

To bury an urban legend, you have to dig up the past.

Pentlockin dismantles the mind through dread, illusion, and guilt. It’s not a story you simply read — it’s a story that rewrites itself around you. Every scene shifts meaning when revisited. Details dismissed as background reappear as evidence. The book uses narrative sleight-of-hand and recontextualisation to implicate the reader in its horror.

At its heart is Walter Crimp, a man whose legend has outlived him. Part myth, part memory, he is both executioner and judge — forcing others to confront the truth they’ve buried.

Readers of Gillian Flynn, Jennifer McMahon, and Neil Gaiman will recognise the psychological depth and mythic undertone. Fans of The Green Mile, Fight Club, and The Haunting of Hill House will find the same moral unease and devastating emotional pay-off.

“I didn’t see it coming until it hit me like a train.” — Alpha Reader

“One of the most emotionally intelligent horrors I’ve ever read.” — Early Feedback

Pentlockin isn’t about death — it’s about what’s left behind when death doesn’t come.