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The Favorite
When a digitized 16mm ritual film from a 1970s cult surfaces in the archives of Bloodgate, a struggling horror streaming platform, engineer Alex Moreno discovers a chilling pattern: every user who watches it to completion simply stops existing. Racing to contain the threat during Bloodgate's inaugural film festival, Alex cuts power seconds before the footage can manifest the entity known as The Favorite before a packed theater audience. He and founder Isaac destroy both the digital and physical copies — but before they can close every door, a film enthusiast unknowingly uploads the footage to YouTube, and as overlapping voices from across the internet speak the ritual's final words in unison, The Favorite begins to spread at a scale no one can stop.
Somnus
After losing his partner, Jonas Keene receives a Somnus smart bed through a corporate bereavement program — a sleep system that promises perfect rest through guided dream sequences — but as the technology adapts to him night by night, its responses grow unnervingly precise, and what began as comfort slowly reveals itself as something watching, learning, and pressing further into the space between his sleep and his waking life.
lake Moriah
When the historic Lake Moriah Hotel burns to the ground with contractor Steven Reid's body inside, the town assumes he torched the building out of revenge over an unpaid debt — leaving his widow in poverty while owner Peter Carson collects a half-million dollar insurance settlement. But as Peter tries to rebuild his life, a dark entity begins stalking him, something he desperately wants to believe is guilt taking shape. As the truth behind the fire slowly unravels, what haunts Peter proves far more literal than he bargained for, and the reckoning that follows is older and more precise than any court of law.
Floaters
In late June, San Francisco optometrist Nolan Sayer begins noticing something he can't explain: patients flooding his clinic with floater complaints, their eye movements eerily synchronized, their behavior subtly altered. As the week builds toward the closest approach of an interstellar object passing through the solar system, the city around him grows quieter, more coordinated, more strange. Strangers move in perfect intervals, his own assistant is barely recognizable beneath a calm that feels borrowed, and the crowds begin drifting toward the waterfront with quiet, collective purpose. Nolan has spent his career telling patients that floaters are harmless. By Sunday, he realizes too late that they never were.
Why Graham Works
In a surveillance state where every citizen's existence is tracked through a mandatory ID cuff, model citizen Graham is blindsided when a system glitch marks him noncompliant and strips him of access to his home, his job, and his identity. As the bureaucracy fails him at every turn, he's pushed into the city's underground, where he finds people the system has erased entirely. When Graham finally has the chance to reclaim his perfect record, he chooses something more dangerous: the truth about the world he was born into.