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The Fovea Experiments: A Horror Novel
An experiment gone wrong. A survivor under suspicion. A teen searching for the truth.
Ostracized by her friends, Nala finds solace creating true crime content for her YouTube channel. When she breaks into her mother’s private investigator files and finds evidence of multiple teen deaths during a sleep experiment in the 2000s, she’s shocked to see the sole survivor is her schoolteacher. She creates a sensationalist video, outing him as a suspect.
Josh is tormented by what happened during The Fovea Experiments. He gets through the days by throwing himself into his job as a teacher, and survives the nights with a little liquid courage. Nala’s video puts him under suspicion once more, and the trauma he experienced as a teen takes him to breaking point. As he fights to clear his name, he discovers his worst nightmare is unfolding.
Because The Fovea Experiments are happening again. And, this time, the people behind it are determined to see it through to the end.
Some say the eyes are the window to the soul. Or are they a doorway to something far worse?
Ostracized by her friends, Nala finds solace creating true crime content for her YouTube channel. When she breaks into her mother’s private investigator files and finds evidence of multiple teen deaths during a sleep experiment in the 2000s, she’s shocked to see the sole survivor is her schoolteacher. She creates a sensationalist video, outing him as a suspect.
Josh is tormented by what happened during The Fovea Experiments. He gets through the days by throwing himself into his job as a teacher, and survives the nights with a little liquid courage. Nala’s video puts him under suspicion once more, and the trauma he experienced as a teen takes him to breaking point. As he fights to clear his name, he discovers his worst nightmare is unfolding.
Because The Fovea Experiments are happening again. And, this time, the people behind it are determined to see it through to the end.
Some say the eyes are the window to the soul. Or are they a doorway to something far worse?
212 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2025
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January 28, 2026
This was a fun one! A horror story with cults, demons and a sleep experiment!
The only thing that I wasn’t a huge fan of was the main character mother and daughter. Mom is a PI - her daughter starts a YT channel and literally breaks into private work files and makes videos on them, literally almost ruining a teachers life just for views. (Sounds accurate these days) the mom also used to date this teacher…Mom finds out and instead of at bare minimum explaining how illegal and wrong it is to break into shit and steal and ruin someone’s life the mom is like “oh well and man I miss dating this guy my daughter tried to ruin” … like wtf?
Then the dumbass kid who knows this is all related to demonic shit and kids have died decides to go to the crazy persons house… these 2 main characters I just wanted to slap.
The end was bleak as shit… but it’s a horror story- so… lol overall this was a fun quick read!
The only thing that I wasn’t a huge fan of was the main character mother and daughter. Mom is a PI - her daughter starts a YT channel and literally breaks into private work files and makes videos on them, literally almost ruining a teachers life just for views. (Sounds accurate these days) the mom also used to date this teacher…Mom finds out and instead of at bare minimum explaining how illegal and wrong it is to break into shit and steal and ruin someone’s life the mom is like “oh well and man I miss dating this guy my daughter tried to ruin” … like wtf?
Then the dumbass kid who knows this is all related to demonic shit and kids have died decides to go to the crazy persons house… these 2 main characters I just wanted to slap.
The end was bleak as shit… but it’s a horror story- so… lol overall this was a fun quick read!
June 9, 2026
Maybe this book just isn't my cup of tea, but I don't feel like the characters or the story was completely fleshed out enough. I didn't care when the cop and her daughter died. It felt like it was just done for shock factor. Maybe I'm missing something but they didn't take part in the Ellis experiment... so how were the demons able to kill them? And there isn't really any details to flesh out how the experiment even worked. I think if this book was longer and went more in depth to flesh everything out it would have been really good.
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March 28, 2026
This was a total
cover buy
, and I really liked it; lots of fun.
The Fovea Experiments went places that I was not expecting... sleep studies, the occult, and Benjamin Franklin(?).
Rating: Four stars. Super solid. Really enjoyed myself.
The Fovea Experiments went places that I was not expecting... sleep studies, the occult, and Benjamin Franklin(?).
Rating: Four stars. Super solid. Really enjoyed myself.
June 30, 2026
This was absolutely unsettling! I will never be able to close my eyes and see the colors and shapes the same way. Having some aspect of my way of thinking impacted is a sure fire way to 5 stars. I mean to not find peace behind closed eyelids- this is monstrous of MJ Mars.
June 13, 2026
Wild ride.
Do sleep experiments cause delusions? Do they bring on psychotic episodes? The Fovea Experiment brings on death, demons and hell.
Do sleep experiments cause delusions? Do they bring on psychotic episodes? The Fovea Experiment brings on death, demons and hell.
June 8, 2026
I don't understand why the author set the book in the USA and then had characters say "rubbish" and "plaster". Just set it in the UK and it wouldn't have taken me out of the story 😵💫
Anyway, this was fine. I never got attached to any of the characters and found Nala annoying. It had a promising start, but tapered off pretty quickly. I liked the descriptions of gore and the demons' appearance; very detailed and fun.
Anyway, this was fine. I never got attached to any of the characters and found Nala annoying. It had a promising start, but tapered off pretty quickly. I liked the descriptions of gore and the demons' appearance; very detailed and fun.
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