
Awakened
Kindle Edition
Watkins Media · Ebook · June 10, 2025
From debut author Laura Elliot comes a tense horror novel emboldened by the surreal, perfect for fans of 28 Days Later and The Quiet Place.
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- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Horror, Dystopian
- Published
- Watkins Media, June 10, 2025
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From debut author Laura Elliot comes a tense horror novel emboldened by the surreal, perfect for fans of 28 Days Later and The Quiet Place. Science has stolen sleep and awakened a world of horror. “I’ve been an insomniac all of my life, but I’m not Sleepless and I won’t become Sleepless, just as long as the chips that were put into their heads never get put into mine.
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There’s little chance of that, since I won’t put the machinery into my brain and neither will Edgar and neither will the Professor, and we’re the only three left who could. I don’t want to be Sleepless…” Civilisation has ended. In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity. But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure. And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower. Are they the answer or a terrible question?
Uncanny Pressure
Come here for
- edge-of-the-unknown mix
- genre-blending tension
Expect
- apocalyptic pressure
- speculative unease
Where it sits
| Dystopian | 85% |
|---|---|
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 73% |
| Horror | 68% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Horror
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Dystopian
- Authors
- Laura Elliott
- Publisher
- Watkins Media
- Published
- June 10, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Horror