The Book of Endings

The Book of Endings

Andrew McGee

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Editorial:
Andrew McGee
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Cuentos
ISBN:
9798994587911
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The world didn’t end with a bang.It ended quietly.In The Book of Endings, Andrew McGee presents a bleak and haunting collection of literary horror stories about the quiet collapse of modern life. Across twenty-four unsettling pieces, ordinary people confront a world where the systems they trusted continue operating long after the meaning behind them has disappeared.A radio station broadcasts into empty houses. A warehouse worker counts inventory that no longer exists. A hospital generator runs until the last drop of fuel is gone. A gas station sells the final tank of gasoline anyone will ever pump. A computer system locks people out of their own lives, not through malice, but through perfect functionality.There are no heroes coming. No final broadcast. No clear moment when everyone understands what has happened.Only machines still humming, routines still being followed, and people slowly realizing that the world they depended on is already gone.Bleak, literary, and deeply unsettling, The Book of Endings explores the horror of a world that doesn’t stop all at once.Sometimes the end of the world is not a scream.Sometimes it is simply the last thing working exactly the way it was designed to.

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