num_pages: 393
description: Obscure urban legends and monstrous myths abound all over the internet, and none are more obscure or bizarre than the one purported to haunt the strange, remote and oddly named town of Growling and its surrounds.Here, the communities are plagued by freakish weather phenomena, aberrant lightning and something even worse that arrives in the midst of these irregular storms. Here, all denizens adhere stringently with the unwritten rules of what they all know as The Sleep. Here, the way of life for folk is dictated to by the BeastStorms.When a group of friends, including an amateur horror film maker, an urban legend and supernatural enthusiast, a sceptic and a journalist, among others, stumble across the vague tale online, each have their own reasons for wanting to discover the veracity of the peculiar legend.Now, they are on a road trip that's taken them thousands of miles from their comfortable city existences and right into the domain of The Sleep. Where mistrusting, superstitious locals patrol the neighbourhoods in packs with ominous warnings for intruders and unwelcome passers-through. Where dissenters are run out of town to live as outcasts on the fringes of civilization. Where repercussions are severe for those who don't take heed of warnings to abide by the rules of the land.Where unholy storms unlike anything ever experienced before, dredge up something more than insane weather. Something monstrous.Every so often, among all those many legends easily explainable, or proved to be nothing more than pure hoax, there's one with more than a kernel of truth to it.One like the BeastStorms.
language: English
title: The Sleep
publisher: J. Ellington Ashton Press