The Book

Alice shouldn’t have opened this book, but she did.

Some novels want to be read. THE BOOK demands it.

Hidden in a dusty box for years, a plain, green book is mailed to the library of a psychiatric hospital. It is sentient. It watches. It listens and manipulates.

Dr Alice Grant is understaffed. One patient away from burnout, THE BOOK wants her. She’s special, but she’s not the only one. Her patients—especially a fragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder collective—fixate on the book, each headmate experiencing devastating horrors.

In this fusion of horror and psychological intrigue, reality and delusion blur as the hospital explodes into chaos. Patients spiral. But the book remains—waiting and planning.

Told through a razor-sharp narrative that blends psychological suspense, pitch-black humour, and a sentient narrator who might be the most dangerous character ever written, THE BOOK is a genre-defying, fourth-wall-breaking descent into madness, obsession, and the terrifying power of stories that refuse to be silenced.

You don’t read THE BOOK. It reads you.

“Equal parts thriller, supernatural fiction, and gritty noir, Katherine Black’s The Book is a wild, disorienting ride.”

“Dark, twisted, and absolutely unforgettable.”