The Tearing (lost horror E-book by Scott Cawthon; 2013)
The book's cover.
Status: Lost
Before gaining massive success with his point and click horror game, Scott Cawthon was an obscure creator in the entertainment space, who made animations such as Birdvillage and Mushsnail. Alongside simple video games like Stellar Gun and Legacy of Flan.[1]
In February 6th of 2013, he would end up posting an electronic horror book titled The Tearing, with it being his first known horror project before Five Nights at Freddy's in 2014.
According to a Reddit comment by Scott (using the Reddit handle animdude), he used to write stories and would often post them under pseudonyms, with The Tearing using Micheal Parsins as one of them.
Plot
While information on the book is scarce, a synopsis of it has resurfaced on the site general-ebooks.com. Despite the website having since gone defunct, its synopsis has been preserved by Reddit user xxMJSW in 2016.[2]
It reads as follows:
"Timothy has been quietly waiting at the orphanage for several months now, a place where children are kept while their mothers decide their fate. One by one, Timothy's friends meet grisly ends at the hands of Mr. Lantern, the resident doctor, but Timothy remains hopeful that he will be united with the one person he loves most, his mother. However, there are dark forces at work; forces that not only want to ensure a gruesome death for Timothy, but to undermine the very notion that he existed in the first place."
Availability
Outside of its synopsis and cover, very little is known about the book, and due to there being no ISBN for it (aka International Standard Book Number), it's likely that it was self-published. Additionally, the only known place where it was available was the previously mentioned general-ebooks.com,[2] although since its gone defunct, it is no longer accessible, and no archives of its listing for it have resurfaced. There are no other known websites where the book was available either.
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Copyright record of the book.
Reddit comment by Scott (using the reddit handle animdude) briefly disscussing the book.
See Also
Five Nights at Freddy's media
- Five Nights at Freddy's (non-existent early trailer of indie horror game; 2014)
- Five Nights at Freddy's (lost early drafts of horror film based on video game series; 2015-2021)
Other Cawthon media
References
- ↑ Before FNAF: The Strange Beauty of Scott Cawthon's Other Games. Retrieved 04 Aug '24
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reddit post discussing the subject, featuring a now dead link to a listing of the book. Retrieved 04 Aug '24