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Cover of The Unfinished Line

The Unfinished Line When the Story Rewrites You

By Anders Vane

A grieving, blocked novelist flees to Blackwood Hollow for silence—only to learn silence listens back, and the page doesn’t stay blank.

About the Book

Alan Ward hasn’t written in eighteen months. In a remote cabin in Blackwood Hollow, the words finally return—too fast, too certain, as if remembered. Then the boundary breaks: knocks arrive exactly when he types them, sentences rewrite themselves, pronouns shift from her to you, and the cursor moves like a living pulse. Time stops at 10:13. Weeks later, a search party finds no body—only a cabin that feels paused mid-breath, scratches in the walls like frantic syntax, and the sense that the story is waiting for a new hand to continue the sentence.

About the Author

Anders Vane

Anders Vane is a Norwegian literary author and a pioneering voice. His work explores the quiet shadows of the human soul, moving through moral gray zones, psychological depth, and ancient echoes that haunt the present.

Vane’s writing carries clear ties to Jon Fosse’s spare intensity, Cormac McCarthy’s stark gravity, Bataille’s confrontations with the forbidden, and Cioran’s razor-edged doubt. There’s also a David Lynch undertow where dream-logic, dread, and the uncanny slips in at the edges, and, beneath it all, a Tolkien sense of myth: not as comfort, but as deep time pressing against the now.

Shaped by Norse heritage, Anders Vane writes where certainty falters and language refuses easy answers. Leaving readers with questions that echo long after the last page.

Author's Website

Book Details

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ASIN
B0G5PP9MGS
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ISBN-13
9788292302064
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Published
2025-12-08
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Language
Cabin horror Haunted text Literary horror Living cursor Metafiction horror Psychological horror Silence as a monster Time anomaly (10:13) Uncanny technology Writer's block