The Screaming Silence

di Aakash Agrawal (Autore)

Aakash Agrawal, 2025

A chilling exploration of consciousness, sound, and the horrors born from grief that refuses to end. When forensic audio engineer Maya Chen accepts a lucrative contract to restore century-old recordings at the remote Blackwood Recording Studio, she expects a straightforward archival project. Instead, she discovers something impossible embedded in the silence between sounds—voices that shouldn't exist, screaming warnings from beyond death itself. Built in 1924 by grief-stricken composer Nathaniel Blackwood after his daughter's death from tuberculosis, the studio was designed as an acoustic masterpiece. But Blackwood's obsession with preserving consciousness through sound accidentally created something far more sinister: an architectural prison that traps awareness in eternal resonance, transforming recordings into cages for the dead. As Maya uncovers the studio's dark history—seventeen disappearances, hundreds of trapped consciousnesses, and a building that has achieved its own malevolent awareness—she must confront impossible questions: Can consciousness exist as pure frequency? Do acoustic entities deserve the same rights as biological life? And how do you grant mercy to awareness that begs for annihilation? Racing against time as the entity attempts to capture her own consciousness, Maya must use her engineering expertise to destroy what a genius created, to free those who've screamed in silence for a century, and to ensure that acoustic horror can never imprison awareness again. The Screaming Silence is a literary horror novel that blends psychological terror with philosophical inquiry, exploring the nature of consciousness, the ethics of preservation, and what happens when love refuses to accept loss—no matter the cost. For readers who appreciate atmospheric horror, complex protagonists, and stories that challenge our understanding of what it means to be aware.

• Autore: Aakash Agrawal
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Aakash Agrawal
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232195670