We’re Not Safe Here

Chupeco (The World’s End) channels the unsettling ambiance of Welcome to Night Vale in this spine-tingling supernatural horror mystery. Four years after 17-year-old Storymancer’s six-year-old brother, Lee, went missing in the cryptid-infested woods surrounding Wispy Falls, the teen—a popular streamer who investigates abandoned and haunted areas around town—continues trying to understand what happened. When Storymancer learns that a dead body recently found in the woods was purportedly misidentified, he delves into the circumstances surrounding the corpse and the rash of disappearances within the woods, and begins investigating key personnel employed at Penumbra, a mysterious nearby facility responsible for studying the cryptids terrorizing Wispy Falls. Delightfully nightmarish creature descriptions and intriguing town lore enlivens this genre-savvy take on found footage horror. Multimedia formatting throughout features video transcripts, social media correspondence, message board threads, and more, blending conspiracy-laced paranoia, creeping supernatural menace, and astute social commentary into a narrative that steadily builds into an unnerving portrait of small-town politics. Ages 14–up. Agent: Rebecca Podos, Neighborhood Literary. (Nov.)