A visceral collection of modern nightmares about transformation, hunger, and the things that wear our faces.**Horror Mode blends body horror, urban legends, and creeping cosmic dread into sharp, cinematic stories that stare too long at what’s underneath the skin... and what’s waiting behind the mirror. Four standalone stories. Four distinct flavors of dread. This collection moves from intimate unease to full-body terror, each tale tightening the screws in its own sharp, cinematic, and designed to linger. Read them in one white-knuckled sprint or savor them one by one; either way, the darkness has a long reach when you’re done. Inside, you’ll find “The Extraction Business” — Night-shift cleanup with sealed doors, fogged visors, and bags that shouldn’t still twitch. “After the Velvet Rope” — A penthouse invitation where the music is sugary, the smiles are wrong, and the beauty is truly only skin deep. “The Book from Mott Street” — A cracked little volume that hums in your hands and teaches your mouth a name you shouldn’t say out loud. “The Prairie” — Winter-black plains, a lantern guttering in the wind, and the wet, squelching birth of something very, very wrong. Content** Body horror, parasitic/transformative imagery, gore, psychological distress, and occult themes.