The city never truly sleeps. It only pretends to.
The traffic dies down, lights dim, and people slip under their bedsheets hoping for rest. But what if, when the city sleeps… something else wakes up? What if the silence of the night hides whispers in the sewers, shadows behind locked doors, and streets that appear only to those who are about to vanish?
When the City Sleeps is not just a horror story — it’s a journey into the unknown, where familiar places become unfamiliar, and safety is only an illusion.
Set in a modern city that mirrors the one you live in, the novel follows multiple chilling events that are seemingly unrelated — a plumber who hears children crying under the road, a couple who disappears after turning onto a road that never existed on the map, a girl who wakes up to messages from a phone that’s been dead for years.
Each chapter of this novel unfolds a new mystery. But slowly, the dots begin to connect.
There’s something under the city. Something ancient. Something angry.
As you turn the pages, the normal turns sinister. The mundane becomes monstrous. And sleep? Sleep becomes the most dangerous thing of all. Because once the city is asleep… that’s when it comes out.
Who will listen to the cries that come from the sewers?
Who will stop the road that swallows people whole?
And what happens when the city finally sleeps forever?
You think your city is safe at night.
You think monsters only exist in forests, in haunted houses, in faraway places.
But the scariest stories don’t happen in distant lands — they happen right outside your window.
This is a novel for those who love urban legends, psychological chills, and slow-burning horror that leaves you questioning what’s real. It’s for the brave readers who don’t just read with the lights on — they start keeping them on.
Each story thread is woven into a bigger nightmare. And once the city sleeps for good… something far worse will awaken.
When the City Sleeps is your invitation to explore the darkness you ignore — the shadows at the edge of streetlights, the staircase that creaks when no one’s there, and the feeling that someone is always watching, even when you're alone.
Do you have the courage to find out what happens… after midnight?
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