I want to write a horror series where everything SEEMS normal and everything IS normal for most of the first book but there’s little things here and there that are just,,, weird,,, but nothing bad happens in the first book. Just kind of,,,,,,, odd life.
The second book builds up the weird stuff and then everything becomes normal in the most creepy way possible. The schools? Look exactly like they do in movies. Houses? All perfect houses with white-picket fences. The people? All very nice to each other, except the teenagers, who all have very cliche cliques. The animals? Literal perfection, as always.
And in the third book, shit just goes down. The eldritch fucking beings emerge and tell some of the teenagers that they’ve been protecting them from the rest of the world, but they knew nothing of human life so they used the media that humans created as a base for everything they made. The teenagers spread the word to the people they don’t hate in the other cliques, and eventually everyone knows, though they don’t believe it. The adults haven’t heard the rumours. The first couple of teenagers that the eldritch being told ask the eldritch being to show themselves because no one actually thinks it’s true, and then it turns out that the beings lied and they’re protecting the world from the adults in the town, because they would destroy everything if given the chance. The teens think they’re going to become like their parents and freak the fuck out (for good reason) and the beings tell them that they’ll be fine as long as they don’t believe the things the adults say, and that they’ll be allowed to leave as soon as they turn eighteen (because they don’t want to set literal children loose with nowhere to go), though they may stay and wait for their friends to come of age and leave with them, and they can take their siblings with them if the oldest sibling is at least eighteen.
Fourth book is when the adults find out and try to get their “kids” to stay with them by manipulating and gaslighting them, which doesn’t work and eventually everyone leaves.
Fifth book one of the adults escapes to capture more people, but the beings stop them and then they go to the now-adults but I’ll call them teenagers because it makes it easier to differentiate between the weird adults and the young adults. One of the beings goes to some of the teenagers that used to live in the town and tells them that they need to find everyone else that used to live there, and that they’ll have help from the other being. Rest of the book is the adults trying to escape and the teens going on a road trip to find each other.
Book six is the finale. Everyone’s been found, the adults are still trapped, and the eldritch beings are basically explaining what the fuck the adults are (also eldritch beings, but a different kind, but they’re related enough that it’s literally impossible for them to kill each other due to Plot Reasons) and then they explain that eldritch beings are very restless creatures and they can’t survive more than 100 years in one place so trapping them was the only way to dispose of them. They’ve been trapped for about fifty years and it’s going to take another fifty for them to finally get die.
Then there’s a short story released afterwards that shows the teenagers and their siblings dealing with all the trauma they went through fifty years later and that they’re still friends with the beings that saved them. It turns out that the adults kidnapped them when they were babies. They’re all ageing very slowly, so they appear to be in their late twenties or early thirties, even though they’re all technically in their sixties. The adults are confirmed to be dead.
There is a rumour of a seventh book. The book is rumoured to be about the teenagers becoming like the beings that saved them. No one knows. The author (me) hasn’t confirmed or denied anything. Upon the author’s death (or boredom), the seventh book is released. The rumours were correct. The teens became eldritch beings. They are now immortal. It makes sense. Everything is put to rest. The series is officially over.
Ngl I would absolutely read this -
