When a lonely boy follows footprints into a house that should be empty, what he finds waiting inside will challenge everything he thinks he knows.
Patrick is used to being alone.
Since moving in with his aunt, his days are quiet?filled with schoolwork, comics, and the comforting presence of his aging retriever, Violet. But when a late-season snowstorm buries the neighborhood, Patrick notices something impossible: footprints leading into the abandoned house across the street. None coming out.
What begins as curiosity soon spirals into obsession. Strange lights flicker behind darkened windows. The house seems to breathe. And when Patrick steps inside, he finds himself face-to-face with something that defies reason.
Told with haunting intimacy and cinematic precision, From the Inside is a story of grief, isolation, and the thin membrane that separates the living from whatever watches us in the dark. Jacob Strunk's slow-burn horror captures the fragile line between curiosity and terror, drawing the reader into a snow-choked world where even the ordinary hum of a house feels alive.
