The Reality Draft

By Leland Grave

Mature

Horror

Mystery and Thriller

Length2h 37m

About this book

Summary

What if your next story was a murder? And you were just the typist? Washed-up author Leo Ashe is one eviction notice away from oblivion. Desperate to break a crippling writer's block, he spends his last hundred dollars on a vintage typewriter—The Olympian. It’s his final, desperate hope. But that night, the machine begins to type by itself, clacking out a gruesome murder story in the dark. Leo’s terror turns to ice-cold horror the next morning when the news reports a real-life killing that matches the story, detail for chilling detail. The Olympian isn't just predicting death. It's writing it into reality. Now, the cursed machine has a new target: someone Leo knows. Every attempt to intervene, to be the hero, only twists the narrative, casting him as the prime suspect in a series of impossible crimes. The Reality Draft is a standalone story within the Leland Grave's Shadow Shelf, a series of chilling supernatural tales.

Book information

Rating

★★★★★ (5.0) (2)

Genre

Horror, Mystery and Thriller

Length

2 hrs 37 mins

Publish date

Sep 9, 2025

Language

English

About the Author

Leland Grave

Leland Grave has always been drawn to the stories that objects tell. His writing explores the unsettling idea that the things we create can, in turn, create us—or destroy us. He finds horror not in the fantastic, but in the familiar made strange. A long-time collector of antique mechanical objects, he writes from a quiet corner of the world, inspired by the works of Shirley Jackson and Charles L. Grant.View all Audiobooks by Leland Grave

1The Reality Draft

7Chapter 6 — Dramatic Revision

2Chapter 1 — The Olympian

8Chapter 7 — The Case File

3Chapter 2 — The Second Paragraph

9Chapter 8 — Exhibit B

4Chapter 3 — The Third Draft

10Chapter 9 — The Unfinished Sentence

5Chapter 4 — The Fourth Wall

11Chapter 10 — The Final Draft

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