Bookmail: Creator of Nightmares

by Jason Davis

A book to die for…



Sandy loves writing horror. She’s been doing it for years.

But now, her writing is turning her fans insane.



It starts with those who read her advanced reader copies. Fans devour the story—then come after Sandy. Soon, she realizes she’s trapped inside her own narrative, racing against every new chapter to survive.



Writing herself to a happy ending should be possible.



After all, she’s the author.



But as a horror writer, happy endings don’t come easily—and every attempt leaves a grisly trail behind her.



Can Sandy escape the story she created, or will her latest book be her last?



And is finally writing a bestseller worth the ultimate price?

278 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2026

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

ARC REVIEW

Sandy seems to attract crazy women that want to kill her…

This book was just okay. I had trouble focusing and was confused at times because names were changed in some spots of the book. Maybe it was a typo, or maybe it was done deliberately. It just didn’t work for me. I really liked the concept of this book, but it fell short for me.

Thanks to Book Sirens for sending me an advanced copy to read and review!

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

With nightmares like this, I’d never want to go to sleep. Sandy completely stressed me out in this story. I was excited to dive into this one because I absolutely loved the first book mail book by this author. As an avid reader, hearing all of the ARC references, authors accused of using AI, and book signings was a treat. When Sandy released her story, I’m pretty sure she did not realize this evil entity that she was summoning. Imagine sending your book to several ARC readers, only for those ARC readers to go completely insane and come for her. This was a quick fun read and definitely will appeal to fans of horror stories. I loved how at the end we saw a little taste of Sexy Lexi from book 1. Will definitely continue to read the Book Mail series and can’t wait to see what this author brings next.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

[Josette Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the first book: Bookmail and I loved it! When I saw the opportunity to read this new book, I had to grab it. Am I ever glad I did. When an author writes a book it must take a lot of imagination and research to come up with a horror novel. This book is really of nightmares…the authors. I could not put this book down. Every bad thing that happened to Sandy was worse than the next situation. I cannot imagine trying to figure out how to defeat what Sandy had summoned. I have some fear about AI due to the movie Space Odyssey 3000. I saw this movie as a kid and was frightened of the idea of a Computer making decisions for me. So when Sandy figured out what she had to defeat, I was scared right along with her. The author does a good job of making an author’s job terrifying.

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jason R Davis really has a way of making the reader stop and think "Wait, is this going to happen to me?". Bookmail Creator of Nightmares follows and Indie author who's books pretty much turn her readers into zombies. She is in the prelaunch period of her book release. Here ARC readers start going crazy trying to get to her, to tell her that they loved her book. The only downside, they also are trying to kill her!

Reading this book as an ARC gave me the heebie geebies. I really enjoyed this book and cant wait to see where the stories go! Thank you Jason and booksirens for providing an early copy for review!

[Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, I’m going to need a minute to process that ending, because wow. As a massive horror fan who lives on the bookish side of the internet, picking up Bookmail: Creator of Nightmares felt like targeted warfare. Jason R. Davis basically took every book influencer’s dream scenario and turned it into an absolute, blood-soaked descent into hell.

This is the second installment, and it focuses on Sandy, a horror author whose writing is literally turning her readers insane. If you get an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) from her, you aren't just reading a scary story—you're getting dragged into it. Sandy quickly realizes she is trapped inside her own demented narrative and has to literally write her way out to survive against her own fans.

What I loved most about this was the sheer, unapologetic meta of it all. Davis has such a sharp eye for the horror community, online fandom, and the toxic hunger for internet notoriety. It feels incredibly self-aware, almost like Stephen King’s Misery collided with modern influencer culture and a heavy dose of supernatural splatterpunk.

A quick word of warning: Do not skip the trigger warnings on this one. The first half does an amazing job building up this tense, psychological paranoia, but the last 30%? Unhinged. It gets graphic, intensely violent, and completely goes off the rails in the best possible way. There were a couple of scenes near the end where I genuinely wanted that Men in Black memory-zapper thing just to clear my headspace.

My only slight gripe is that a few of the pacing transitions in the middle felt a little frantic, but honestly, given that the characters are literally racing against the clock of a unfolding manuscript, the chaotic energy kind of fit the vibe.

If you like your horror brutal, messy, clever, and packed with demonic possession tropes, absolutely pick this up. Just... maybe think twice the next time a strange package arrives in your mailbox.
Thanks to the author/publisher for providing an ARC via BookSirens. All opinions are my own and left voluntarily!

[Angel Medina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Would you do 'anything' just to be the next best selling horror author? That is what Sandy finds out in the next installment of Bookmail. She sends out ARC copies to a few people. While they end up loving the book, they end up coming after her, literally. Imagine you're book becomes a real life nightmare? Being a writer doesn't sound as exciting anymore.

This book is so fun and the deaths are brutal, in a good way of course. The ending caught me off guard, which I won't reveal here. I also loved the cameos represented by some of the author's favorite authors. I thought that was a nice touch. Sandy wasn't the most likeable character, just being honest. However, it didn't hurt my enjoyment of the story. However, her in laws were like, hold my beer haha. A great second installment to the Bookmail series.

[Mieke Janssens · Rating 4 out of 5]

I mostly enjoyed this story, but it often confused me. Sandy's thoughts sometimes wander off, and it kinda took the flow out of the story when that happened.
The finale was action-packed, but confused me on more than 1 instance. It wasn't really clear to me what was real and what wasn't.
Even though I liked the story and the fact that it was brutal and gory at times, it didn't really grab me, and it took me a while to finish the book.
3.5 stars rounded up.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

[Zimbellina · Rating 5 out of 5]

ARC review. Sandy is a horror indie author who’s taken a break to take care of her kids. Now she’s back with a new book but when readers start turning up everywhere things go bad real quick.

Excellent book! I loved Bookmail so I’m glad this one was just as good. Sandy was very well written and I enjoyed reading her murderous writings. The ending was actually unexpected, which was great. Some very satisfying deaths too.

[Crystal DeBoard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good read. It doesn't follow the first book, which bummed me out a little at first, but I enjoyed the story. The story was unique and the ending was great.
This one follows Sandy who wants nothing more than to be a famous writer, but it isn't going her way, after a desperate attempt to improve her career as an author the people around her start dying.

[Kathleen Stull · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this as a presale as I loved the first and couldn't wait for the second. I didn't like Sandy. She was wishy-washy and wimpy. I did enjoy the last few chapters and the twist at the end. Also, the epilogue was cute. Overall, I'd give it a 3.5⭐️ rating.

[Leighah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yeah I didn't mind this book. I found it a little bit slower than the previous book in this unverse. I have to admit I didn't care for the main character too much but that didn't really take from the story. I loved hating the inlaws though. There was a nice ammount of violence towards the end. The end has a enjoyable twist. Even though this is the second book in the series they are not really connected so you can read this as a stand alone.

[Jeff Brodnax · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this one so much more than the first. It didn’t have penis snakes, but what it lacked it made up for in everything else. Sandy is an indie horror author who is working on the follow up of her previous book ‘Bookmail’ (the meta horror was strong with this one and it really worked). So she is working on her follow up to Bookmail, which just so happened had the same plot as the first book, was she the author of the first book? I like to think so, it plays into the meta horror angle and makes this one work so much better.

So she is following up her first book with a sequel, but weird things start to happen all around her. It’s almost as if what she writes, or what she thinks about writing actually comes to fruition, freaky stuff. The bodies start to pile up, and the body count gets larger and larger with every page. This one was a real banger in my opinion and had me turning pages long into the night.

I won’t spoil too much of the story as it’s far better to go in blind on this one, I just picked it up because I enjoyed the first one so much, and I was hooked from the very first chapter. Fan favorites from the first also make an appearance here, afterall it is a shared universe, and it reads like a Sutter Kane novel. Max and Lexi, yep they show up, not how you’d expect it but they are here none the less.

I'd like to thank Booksirens for the opportunity to read this book in advance.

This installment has it’s crazy moments but not as batshit crazy as the first book, so if you like a more slow burn, psychological, demonic posession story I say pick this one up. If you’re looking for something that is bat shit crazy like the first installment, I will say pick this one up as well, just don’t expect anything as crazy to happen.

5 Skulz, and remember stay Sexy.

[Mickey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sandy writes horror, and she loves it, as do her fans. Her newest book is ready for publication, and ARCs have already been sent out. Now she’s trying to write her next novel, and it isn’t going well.
Before long, things take a disturbing turn. At a book event, a wild-eyed woman attempts to kill Sandy, then brutally murders a fellow author before taking her own life. After Sandy returns home, another unhinged woman appears and tries to kill her again. The strange events escalate, growing more and more unsettling, until Sandy finally decides to take a stand.

This is a (sort of) follow-up to Bookmail, though it features a new cast of characters. It was brilliantly brutal, and I thought the story itself was strong; however, I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first book. This one leaned more toward a zombie-style story, which isn’t typically a genre I enjoy.
Unfortunately, there were quite a few typos, grammatical issues, and spelling errors. The husband’s name also changed from Tim to Glen before I was halfway through the book, though it’s unclear whether this was intentional, since Sandy keeps forgetting the male lead’s name in the book she’s writing. At one point, Sandy even becomes Lexi on one page.
Because this is an ARC, I’m hopeful these issues will be corrected before publication. For now, though, they did make the reading experience more difficult, as they frequently pulled me out of the story.

[Chloe Christensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this one just as much as I loved the first book. I had no idea what to expect and the more I read the more I had no clue what was going on but in the best way. First, it had me guessing if maybe Sandy was just losing her marbles, then maybe in postpartum psychosis or something, and ultimately I ended up going through like 5 different scenarios of what could possibly be going on but nothing could have made me guess what was actually happening. I do love how it ended though, Sandy made the right choice.

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[Jinx_Larsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book and am leaving my honest review voluntarily. Thank you to Book Sirens, Jason R. Davies and the publisher for the opportunity.

This book is viscerally disturbing. It wields both anxiety and fear and balances it with gore with precision. The mundane realities of juggling your passion and survival are equally as terrifying as the supernatural side of the story.

I think I liked this even better than the first book and am curious where the anthology is going. Definitely planning of checking out his backlog.

Oh and I absolutely love the little perks into the inspiration behind both books in this series. It’s such a treat!

[Micki-D · Rating 4 out of 5]

This sequel takes a clever meta‑horror angle, following Sandy as her own writing turns against her and her ARC readers spiral into obsession and violence. The concept of an author being hunted by the very fans who devour her stories gives the book a tense, claustrophobic energy, especially as Sandy realizes she’s essentially trapped inside her own narrative. The danger escalates with every new chapter she writes, and the idea of her racing the plot to save her own life is both unsettling and fun. It doesn’t follow the first book’s structure and the pacing is slower, but even with the shift in tone, the story still delivers a solid mix of suspense, chaos, and creative horror. Watching Sandy try to outwrite her own doom makes for an engaging, eerie read.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know I shouldn't compare, but I liked the first one better. This was okay.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

[John Bitsko · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I zipped right through it. Definitely recommended.

[Rainbeaux Harvest · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bookmail, this is not a Blues Clues kinda mail. You don't want to be around for the maaaiiillll call. Writing is some people's passion, for others it drives them crazy. I loved the first Bookmail, this one had me confused in some parts of the story. But all around it was enjoyable. These are the what ifs going through my head when I think of writing a book.