The Twisted Ones
2017
- zombies
- survival
- five nights at freddy's (video game)
- pizzerias
- robots
- fiction
- children's fiction
- horror stories
- robots, fiction
- survival, fiction
The story
It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school-bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar-she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.
What it’s like
Brisk, pulpy suspense with a cold, uneasy edge, the kind of read that suits a school night or a dark evening with a lamp on and the door locked. The prose is plain and quick, built around short scenes and cliffhanger beats, with a steady drift from ordinary daylight routines toward dim, cramped places where something feels wrong. Dread does most of the work: a creeping sense that the past has not stayed buried, the kind of unease that grows through whispered rumours and unexplained discoveries rather than long set pieces. The violence is real but kept at arm's length, with grim discoveries and wounds described in restrained, unsettling detail rather than lingered over, so it reads as scary rather than gory. Its heroine is a young girl trying to rebuild normal life after trauma, and the story follows her slow reluctant return to a frightening history she hoped to leave behind. Best for younger teens and fans of animatronic-horror fiction who want chills and momentum without graphic content.
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