This one for sure had a creepy, creepy vibe. If you’ve ever stayed in the woods just a little too long after dark, if you’ve ever had the feeling that someone or something was trying to hurt you, if you remember the first friend you ever made and how strong that bond was, then Penpal is a story that you won’t soon forget, despite how you might try.” Beginning with only fragments of his earliest years, you’ll follow the narrator as he discovers that these strange and horrible events are actually part of a single terrifying story that has shaped the entirety of his life and the lives of those around him. In Penpal, a man investigates the seemingly unrelated bizarre, tragic, and horrific occurrences of his childhood in an attempt to finally understand them. How much do you remember about your childhood?

Before long, it was adapted into illustrations, audio recordings, and short films and that was before it was revised and expanded into a novel! This is a quick read for those of you who are into Stephen King-esque types of stories.“ Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. The only spoiler I’ll give is that the narrator lived to tell the tale. *insert screaming emoji*Īnd it gets weirder from there. More Polaroids arrive, and the narrator realizes that HE is in every photo. The notes start trickling in to the classroom except for our narrator’s … but when his does arrive, it comes with a Polaroid that just shows a blurry part of the city. The story begins when his class releases balloons with notes attached to them, asking the person who finds the ballon to write them back and if possible to send a photo of where they found the balloon or where the live. As he writes, he is trying to regain his memory of what happened in his childhood. I’ve been home for the week … that downtime between Christmas and New Year’s, so I thought this one looked like I could tackle it.Ĭreepy as hell, Penpal is the story of the unnamed narrator, the woods by his house, and a mysterious person who answered a note that he released on a balloon with his class at school. I had never heard of this author before, and knew nothing about this book other than my friend Laura gave it to me and liked it, and she and I have similar book tastes.

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