The Stacks That Breathe

Author:   Matthew Petchinsky
Publisher:   Apophis Enterprises LLC
ISBN:  

9798295595455


Pages:   116
Publication Date:   02 February 2026
Format:   Paperback
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The Stacks That Breathe


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Beneath a modern university lies an underground archive never meant to be entered-where shelves inhale, aisles constrict, and books do not merely store knowledge, but consume it. When a student employee is assigned to the lowest level of the stacks, they discover the truth no catalog will admit: the archive is alive. It feeds on memory, attention, and identity, borrowing thoughts until nothing remains but silence bound in cloth and ink. As disappearances are quietly erased and staff members become entries rather than people, the boundary between reader and volume begins to collapse. Guided by an archivist who knows the cost of curiosity, the narrator must confront a living system that does not kill-it files. Each descent steals time, breath, and pieces of the self, until the ultimate question emerges: how do you escape a library that has already learned your name? The Stacks That Breathe is a gothic, psychologically twisted occult horror novel about institutional hunger, suffocating knowledge, and the terror of being remembered forever. Claustrophobic, literary, and deeply unsettling, it will linger in the reader's mind long after the final page-breathing softly, patiently, waiting.

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Author:   Matthew Petchinsky
Publisher:   Apophis Enterprises LLC
Imprint:   Apophis Enterprises LLC
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.167kg
ISBN:  

9798295595455


Pages:   116
Publication Date:   02 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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