PLAY.
Jack Plummer hasn't slept in two years. Then he found a video store that shouldn't exist.
A psychological horror novel about grief, insomnia, and the price of forgetting. For fans of Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, and anyone who still remembers the smell of a video store at 11pm.
DON'T REWIND
Pick a movie. Don't rewind. Sleep.
Play It Again Video sits on a block in North Beach that was supposed to be a vacant lot. The neon sign hums at three in the morning. The clerk smiles too long. And the tapes — the tapes work. For the first time in two years, Jack Plummer wakes up rested. Clear. Functional.
But every tape takes something with it. Hours vanish. Memories slip. The faces of the people Jack loves begin to blur at the edges. As the store's hold tightens and the line between sleep and action disappears, Jack has to decide how much of himself he's willing to lose just to stop hurting.
What if nostalgia didn't just comfort you — what if it consumed you?
There are only four.
Membership Rules
- Pick a movie.
- Don't rewind.
- Sleep.
- Bring it back when you're done.
MEMBER
★★★
Insomnia had started to feel less like a medical condition and more like a haunting.— PLAY, CHAPTER ONE
…you'll want this on your nightstand.
Grady Hendrix
The pop-culture dread of Horrorstör meets a quieter, sadder grief.
Paul Tremblay
Slow-burn psychological horror where the threat is half-internal.
Stephen King
Lonely men, small obsessions, a town that knows too much.
Analog Horror
If The Ring scared you as a kid and Skinamarink scared you as an adult.
What readers are saying.
"Read it in two sittings, then couldn't sleep — which felt thematically appropriate. Furry writes loneliness like a horror element."★★★★★ — ADVANCE READER
"A love letter to video stores written in the language of nightmares. The wall scene is going to live in my head."★★★★★ — ADVANCE READER
"The most unsettling book I've read this year. Quiet, patient, devastating."★★★★★ — ADVANCE READER
RENT THE TAPE.
Available now in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Press Play. Close Your Eyes.
Narrated by Spencer David Blair.
Some horror is meant to be heard. The full novel, performed in a voice that knows exactly when to whisper and exactly when to stop. Perfect for late-night drives, longer walks, and the hours when you should be sleeping.
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