The Blair Monster

By Chris Sellek

It was supposed to be a celebratory anniversary trip to a mountain cabin. It was supposed to be a break from stress. It was supposed to be fun. It was none of those things.

 

Tony and Rachel Sanders were excited to escape city life and spend two weeks in the mountains to celebrate their wedding anniversary. But they get more than they asked for from the moment they arrive. The mountains are eerily quiet. They can't stop sneezing. And the cabin they rent has an unexpected and uninvited third visitor.

 

Their vacation quickly shifts from a relaxing getaway, to an attempt to get away from whoever is trying — successfully — to scare them, to a mad scramble to get the hell out of the mountains at all.

 

Will they manage to elude their mysterious pursuer? Or will they succumb to the malevolent force that haunts them?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Sellek
• Release date: Jun 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227193278

Chris Sellek

I write things. That feels ambiguous. Allow me to explain. For my 9-5, I'm a software engineer and I write code. But ever since I got lost in countless movies as a child with my siblings, I've been fascinated by, and constructing my own, stories. From the (probably terrible) short stories I was constantly cranking out in elementary school through high school, to the screenplay I wrote in high school, to the short film I wrote and directed in college, to the humor blog (https://iamsellek.blogspot.com/) I maintained in my early adult life, I've written nonstop pretty much since I learned how to put letters together to create words. So it was really only a matter of time until I published something. Eventually, this happened in 2016 when I self-published The Blair Monster, a gothic horror short story set in the mountains based on my own actual experiences with the mountains of NC. After this, I decided it was high time for my first novel. Thus, Eliya, and my "big boy" writing career was born. I LOVE stories and storytelling, modern fantasy (The Lightbringer series is my current favorite), and gothic horror tales. The original Star Wars trilogy, which I will never forget watching in wide-eyed wonder as a kid in the 90s, heavily influences almost everything I write. I love telling a good, original story, and I love writing stories with characters from historically-marginalized groups because I think it's high time someone other than white males had their own Luke Skywalkers to dream of becoming when they grow up. I'm Chris Sellek. I write things.