Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights N°4: Step Closer

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights No. 4 (Step Closer) is the tenth book in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise and the fourth part of the Fazbear Frights anthology, written by Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Kelly Parra, and Andrea Waggener.

This installment contains three stories titled "Step Closer", "Dance with Me" and "Coming Home". In addition to an epilogue that tells us more about the history of The Stitchwraith.

It was released on July 7, 2020.

## Description

### Fans of Five Nights at Freddy's won't want to miss this fast-paced collection of three novella stories that will keep even the bravest FNAF gamer awake at night...

Isolation can open a vacuum. Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a hideous curse. Kasey struggles with how far she will go to survive on the streets after stealing an unusual pair of novelty glasses. Samantha and her sister Susie struggle to exist side by side, desperate to connect after a terrible tragedy. But in the bleak world of Five Nights at Freddy's, empty feelings often attract hungry monsters...

In this fourth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon tells three sinister stories in novella form from different corners of his series' canon, with cover art by fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.

Readers beware: this collection of terrifying stories is enough to unsettle even the most die-hard of Five Nights at Freddy's fans.

## summaries

### Step Closer

Pete is seen babysitting her younger brother, Chuck, due to her parents' divorce. One day, while babysitting him at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Pete decides to scare Chuck by taking him to the Parts/Service room where Foxy is, since Chuck is afraid of him. As Chuck escapes once Pete starts up the animatronic fox, Pete's shirt catches on a nail as he tries to catch it. Then the Pirate Cove curtains open, revealing Foxy. He then starts singing a pirate-themed song, but gets stuck on the "You can be a pirate, but first you'll have to lose an eye and an arm!" part, and Pete is mesmerized by it. The next day, Pete feels bad.

Over the next few days, sharp objects began flying into Pete's eye and arm. A scalpel nearly hit him in the eye in science class, a falling butcher knife nearly severed his arm in a butcher shop, a chainsaw nearly severed his arm passing a building under construction, and the wind blows a hook of fishing scraped his cheek. Chuck theorizes that he might have something to do with Foxy, but Pete brushes him off. Later, Pete had a nightmare in which Foxy came into his room and viciously attacked him, gouging out his eye and arm.

The next day, Pete goes to his school's homecoming carnival, which turns out to be pirate-themed. After getting his hand caught in a Chinese finger trap, hallucinating being chased by Foxy through a mirror maze and being hit under the eye with a dart, he finally considers Chuck's theory and calls him, telling him to meet up with Chuck. at Freddy's. On the way to Freddy's, more sharp objects go in bizarre ways against Pete.

When he was near Freddy's, not paying attention to the road while texting his brother, Pete is hit by a truck and killed. Chuck runs to Freddy's, but once there he is called and picked up by his father, who takes him to the crash site. Chuck and his family watch as Pete's body is taken away by ambulance.

At the hospital, Pete wakes up conscious in his body but unable to move. Surgeons prepare to remove an eye and an arm from another patient, as he had been listed as an organ donor. Pete is forced to watch helplessly as his body is ripped apart, Foxy's song playing in his head.

Four weeks later, Chuck returns to Freddy's to confront Foxy and avenge his brother, but Foxy was immobile.

## dance with me

Kasey is in a robbery group with her two associates of hers, Jack and AJ. One day, he steals a woman's purse at Circus Baby's Pizza World. In it, she finds a pair of cardboard glasses painted with a color palette similar to that of the animatronic Ballora. On the side of the glasses, there was a note that read, "Put on the glasses and Ballora will dance for you." When Kasey does, she is mesmerized by an image of Ballora dancing.

Only she can see Ballora through the glasses. The more she looks at her, the closer she seems to be to Ballora. Her partner Jack decides to throw them out, but Kasey still had a feeling that Ballora would follow her. She grabs the glasses back and runs off to start over.

On her way, she meets an old lady at the bus station, who told her not to run away from her trouble. She got a job at a restaurant, but kept stealing and Ballora kept getting close. Kasey runs to a new place and promises to stop stealing. However, she steals a dress for a job interview and gets caught. Fortunately, a woman was kind enough to pay for her dress.

Kasey decides to make things right once and for all. She found the address of the woman whose bag she stole and she returned it to him. She also returns the glasses to her daughter. When she puts on her glasses, she starts to dance.

## coming-home

A year ago, a young woman named Susie was lured in and murdered. Susie's tragic death tore her family apart, her father left, her mother turned to drugs, and her sister, Samantha, was in constant pain.

During the day, Susie's spirit haunts her house, and Samantha and her mother can't see her, but at night, Chica comes home every night at 12 A.M. Just enough to take Susie away. As the two leave each night, Susie feels herself faint and black out until she is suddenly back at her house in the morning.

Susie is aware that her time is limited and that she only has two days left before Chica takes her away for good. Her countdown clock is Oliver, a tree in the front yard of her house that she named. Once all the leaves fall from the tree, her time will be over and Susie will never see her family again.

Susie can communicate with Samantha through drawings. Samantha must find Gretchen, a special doll that the two sisters used to fight over. Susie had hidden it somewhere secret before her death. Samantha, able to interpret the drawings, desperately tries to find the doll to grant her sister's last wish.

On the last night, Chica enters the house, grabs Susie, and chases after Samantha. Samantha climbs out the window, walks across the roof and back to the first floor of her house through another window trying to escape from Chica. Samantha heads to the kitchen and enters her father's old office, discovering Gretchen hiding in this room. Samantha runs outside, not knowing what to do, as Chica and Susie start to leave. Samantha yells at them to stop, and as the last of Oliver's leaves fall to the ground, Susie's soul appears before Samantha one last time. The two sisters say their last goodbyes. Samantha watches Susie and Chica disappear, glad to know that her sister will be okay.

## Epilogue

This epilogue continues the flashback from the third epilogue. The endoskeleton that killed Phineas was the Stitchwraith, and it is currently possessed by two children: Jake and Andrew. Jake has control over the endoskeleton's sight and movement, while Andrew can only hear. The endoskeleton is trapped in a moving truck. Both boys have hazy memories, but Andrew remembers wanting revenge on someone who hurt him. He had bound his soul to the man to ensure that he never died, even when several people tried to kill him, referencing the events of The Man in Room 1280.

Andrew, and the person he was attached to, had ended up at the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, where the man died and Andrew's soul was transferred to Fetch. The dog would likely be sent to some Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, eventually ending up in Greg's hands, and then in the possession of Phineas Taggart after breaking down in a lightning storm. Andrew would happen to be transferred into the body of the Stitchwraith when he inserted the battery.

The garbage truck breaks open and the Stitchwraith is about to be thrown out, but when one of the workers came out to get to it, Jake inadvertently kills the man when he touches it. His skin turns pale and his eyes bleed liquid as he dies. Andrew explains that his anger was affecting the endoskeleton and anyone who touched it, causing anyone who came in contact with the endoskeleton to receive a small electrical shock, causing the person's body to "wither". Andrew also reveals that other objects were infected by that rage. Jake theorizes that there may be a third entity inside the Stitchwraith, and that it is the one that caused the infection. Jake can telepathically connect with Andrew's thoughts so that he can track all of the infected objects.