SuitabookIdentity and self-possession
Jake’s supernatural experience is connected with social exposure, private fear and the possibility that another force may control or erase aspects of him.
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Ryan Douglass - Author
This is a dark, psychologically charged supernatural horror story about a teenager whose ability to see the dead brings him into contact with a powerful, vengeful ghost. Identity and control appear central alongside fear.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark, psychologically charged supernatural horror story about a teenager whose ability to see the dead brings him into contact with a powerful, vengeful ghost. Identity and control appear central alongside fear.
Jake’s supernatural experience is connected with social exposure, private fear and the possibility that another force may control or erase aspects of him.
Jake is one of the only Black pupils at St Clair Prep and is described as struggling to fit in while facing social and supernatural pressures.
Jake encounters Sawyer, a teenager who killed six pupils at a local school before dying by suicide and later becomes a powerful, vengeful ghost.
Approach it as intense horror, not merely a ghost story. The book includes graphic bodily imagery and serious threats involving violence, abuse, racism, sexual harm, suicide and loss of autonomy.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.