Horror Book of the Week: I FOUND PUPPETS LIVING IN MY APARTMENT WALLS By Ben Farthing

 

This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is I FOUND PUPPETS LIVING IN MY APARTMENT WALLS By Ben Farthing. 

The book has been much talked about online and for a reason. This clever horror story has managed to creep out several readers using a new sub-genre in horror: puppets. 

Puppets used to be something we were enthralled with as kids. Many of us were even educated by watching puppets in TV shows and even learned manners from them. 

Who knew puppets could also be terrifying? 

I FOUND PUPPETS LIVING IN MY APARTMENT WALLS was published in August 2023 and is on the bestsellers list in Horror Short Stories and Horror Suspense. 

The book has garnered good reviews from critics who have described the book as chock full of horrors and unsettling. 

Customers who bought this book appreciated the author’s technique in introducing a creepy scene right in the beginning. They also lauded the writing style and found the story original, unsettling, and quick-horrorjumps right into the horror scene and grips. 

Quick Book Review based on the sample

Johnny and Brittany have finally made peace with their grandpa’s disappearance. Their grandpa used to voice a puppet called Swoomie in the show called R-City Street. 

Johnny wakes up in the middle of the night to see a puppet near his bed. Spooked by the puppet’s appearance, and the fact that it moved and touched him, he begins to wonder about what really happened to his grandfather. 

The book does jump right into the horror scene and it does grip you in its terrifying claws. The author appears to have written the story in the style of Goosebumps ( a series for kids written by R.L. Stine) based on the short chapters and the technique of jumping right into the action. 

You will definitely want to read further and put this creepy and unsettling novella on your Wishlist. 

The Plot (Taken from Amazon.com)

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed.

He recognizes the furry monster: Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio.

Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet inside the building’s walls, ever deeper into a puppet-infested labyrinth...

I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.

I FOUND PUPPETS LIVING IN MY APARTMENT WALLS is part of the I FOUND HORROR series by Ben Farthing. 

The novella is currently available on Kindle and Audiobook. 

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