The author wrote his monster. His monster rewrote him. A chilling modern-day reimagining of Jekyll and Hyde set inside the cutthroat world of self-publishing.

A struggling author. A mysterious serum. A monster that wears his face. The Darkness Within is a Jekyll-and-Hyde horror story for the self-publishing age, told through deteriorating diary entries that crack and splinter, unraveling in real time as Tanner Barrett loses himself to an inner beast which, to his horror, has awakened - and knows his enemies by name. What would you sacrifice to write the perfect book? The Darkness Within follows a bitter, fading author who takes a shortcut that rewires his mind, resurrects his career, and unleashes something ancient and violent into the world.

The Darkness Within is literary horror at its most intimate. Tanner Barrett wanted to be remembered. He got his wish, just not the way he imagined. A slow-burn psychological unraveling you will not see coming. If you love horror for the dread that builds slowly and the endings that stay with you, The Darkness Within is your next listen.

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From the bestselling, award-winning author who brought you the Dissonance alien invasion hexalogy, the Christian dystopian Trilogy The End, the Talisman saga, Blood Echoes, Forecast, The Slide and The Phoenix Experiment comes a hauntingly relatable novel by Aaron Ryan that every self-published indie author will find achingly relatable. Penned in epistolary fashion, step inside the mind of a tormented self-published author.