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In a town where horror movie tropes come to life, one's only chance to survive is to

play their role, in the first book of a spine-tingling gamelit series.

When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his group of college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for their Centennial Celebration,…

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1 author picked The Bystander as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The Game At Carousel is my favorite. It's a horror movie themed LitRPG with a film buff MC, well-written female characters, and reads a bit like a horror anthology, but with a meta narrative and the same cast throughout.

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