Barnaby The First Skin: It shouldn't be this heavy

He wanted to build a bear to bring his dead grandson back... instead he created a nightmare. >At first, Barnaby feels like the answer to his prayers. His impossible weight anchors the emptiness. His pulsing heat chases away the cold. >But Barnaby doesn't comfort. He consumes. The bear hungers for devotion. He rewrites memories, silences joy, and slowly transforms loving families into hollow, serene shells who live only for his suffocating warmth. One by one, the people of Whalebone surrender to the heavy, living silence he brings - trading their grief for a permanence that never lets go. Dark, atmospheric, and relentlessly unsettling, *Barnaby - The First Skin* is a masterful literary horror novel about the terrifying lengths we go to for love - and what love becomes when it refuses to die. Some things are only permanent because they never stop taking. If you crave slow-burn folk horror, psychological dread, and stories where the monster offers exactly what you beg for, this is your next obsession. Pick up Barnaby... Just don't expect to put him down.

Pages: 356, Paperback, Independently published