About
Some things disappear quietly. A name lifted from a document. A face bleached from a photograph. A voice that speaks from a room where no one is standing.
In these three stories, ordinary women and men encounter evidence of a carefully, procedurally, and unauthorized alteration in their world. A grieving daughter receives a letter informing her that her dead mother never existed. A woman inherits her grandmother's house and discovers a locked room, a chair, and forty years of journals warning her not to answer what she hears. A blind photographer learns that every picture he has taken contains a figure he was never able to see.
No monsters. No gore. No escape.
Affected Materials is the first volume in the Proof of Absence anthology series—a collection of horror built from paperwork, silence, and the quiet moments when the world you trusted stops holding your weight.
