![]() ![]() So, mission accomplished, only it's on a much larger scale than Auerbach ever imagined. In its completed form, Penpal ( available for purchase here) is an engrossing, chilling blend of coming-of-age storytelling and realistic, non-supernatural horror that'll should keep readers far away from dreamland. By December, without a publicist or an official marketing team behind it, Penpal landed on the leading horror website Bloody Disgusting's list of 2012's 10 best horror novels and was on its way to a movie deal. ![]() NoSleep readers loved it and wanted more, so Auerbach-who'd never written any fiction prior to "Footsteps"-quickly put together a follow-up, "Balloons." The cycle repeated itself through the beginning of October.Įleven months later, Auerbach self-published-via his own imprint, 1000 Vultures-his well-received Reddit stories as a fleshed-out, meticulously refined 240-page novel entitled Penpal. Titled "Footsteps," the then-26-year-old college philosophy teacher's story was a foggy first-person perspective recollection of the time when, for no discernible reason, he woke up in the woods, not his comfortable bunk bed. The message board thread allows registered visitors to upload original, personal tales of terror, and Auerbach had a whopper to share. It was September 2011, and the Pensacola, Florida, native was checking out some user-posted stories on " NoSleep," a subreddit. Dathan Auerbach only wanted to scare a few people on Reddit. ![]()
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