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Meow
BEWARE OF THE MIRROR.
Beth Haven looks like any other small town - quiet streets, a local diner, people who mind their own business. Maybe a little too well. Edward has lived here long enough to learn the unspoken when the police drag townspeople into the woods at night, you don't ask questions.
But Edward follows them anyway.
What he finds in an abandoned cabin at the treeline will haunt him long after he wishes he'd stayed a forbidden book, a cracked mirror, an old woman with burning red eyes - and a black kitten that is no kitten at all, but something ancient wearing its shape. Something hungry. Something that has been waiting behind the glass for a very long time.
The thing in the mirror follows Edward home. It doesn't need doors. It travels through reflections - a diner window, a hospital waiting room - and it knows his name. It knows his friend Chris, too, the only other person who's ever survived looking into it. "You brought me home," it whispers to Edward, and he understands with dawning terror that the evil didn't escape Beth Haven. He carried it out with him.
Edward smashes the mirror. He runs. But glass can't hold what's already inside him. In a roadside motel, with every mirror covered, blood seeps through the towels - and his own reflection smiles back wrong, red flickering in its pupils.
Then, on a deserted highway, the old woman steps out of the dark - no longer confined to reflections, no longer asking permission - with the only bargain she ever one life. His... or someone else's.
MEOW is a supernatural horror novella about the evil that hides in plain sight, the price of looking away, and the reflections you can never outrun. A story of small-town secrets, impossible choices, and the thing that waits behind every mirror for someone to finally look.
For fans of Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts and Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street - horror that unsettles less through gore than through the slow, certain dread of being chosen.
Don't look too long. It's already looking back.
Beth Haven looks like any other small town - quiet streets, a local diner, people who mind their own business. Maybe a little too well. Edward has lived here long enough to learn the unspoken when the police drag townspeople into the woods at night, you don't ask questions.
But Edward follows them anyway.
What he finds in an abandoned cabin at the treeline will haunt him long after he wishes he'd stayed a forbidden book, a cracked mirror, an old woman with burning red eyes - and a black kitten that is no kitten at all, but something ancient wearing its shape. Something hungry. Something that has been waiting behind the glass for a very long time.
The thing in the mirror follows Edward home. It doesn't need doors. It travels through reflections - a diner window, a hospital waiting room - and it knows his name. It knows his friend Chris, too, the only other person who's ever survived looking into it. "You brought me home," it whispers to Edward, and he understands with dawning terror that the evil didn't escape Beth Haven. He carried it out with him.
Edward smashes the mirror. He runs. But glass can't hold what's already inside him. In a roadside motel, with every mirror covered, blood seeps through the towels - and his own reflection smiles back wrong, red flickering in its pupils.
Then, on a deserted highway, the old woman steps out of the dark - no longer confined to reflections, no longer asking permission - with the only bargain she ever one life. His... or someone else's.
MEOW is a supernatural horror novella about the evil that hides in plain sight, the price of looking away, and the reflections you can never outrun. A story of small-town secrets, impossible choices, and the thing that waits behind every mirror for someone to finally look.
For fans of Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts and Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street - horror that unsettles less through gore than through the slow, certain dread of being chosen.
Don't look too long. It's already looking back.
100 pages, Paperback
Published July 14, 2026
About the author
Brian Edlin
26 books3 followersBrian Edlin is a Kentucky author who has been writing stories since elementary school. He is the author of the MEOW supernatural horror series — a five-book saga about a forbidden book, a cracked mirror, and the witch Agnes, who has waited 278 years to get her child back. The series runs MEOW, MEOW 2: Reflections, MEOW 3: The Sacrifice, MEOW 4: The Spread, and the finale, MEOW 5: Reborn.
He also writes children's picture books about kindness and courage: John and His Blue Elephant, Michael's Surprise, and The Strange Adventure — a story dedicated to children with disabilities, about friendship, forgiveness, and how being different makes you you.
Brian lives in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, with his wife, Susan. When he isn't writing, he's finding new readers for the MEOW series one library and bookstore at a time.
He also writes children's picture books about kindness and courage: John and His Blue Elephant, Michael's Surprise, and The Strange Adventure — a story dedicated to children with disabilities, about friendship, forgiveness, and how being different makes you you.
Brian lives in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, with his wife, Susan. When he isn't writing, he's finding new readers for the MEOW series one library and bookstore at a time.
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June 16, 2026
Stumbled upon this book in a group on facebook. Was super excited, as I love horror and cats, to read this book.
Edward comes across an old cabin with an old mirror inside. The mirror contains a cat and an old lady inside. The old lady wants a soul. Edward is to supply one or himself to her. Will he? And if he does find someone or himself, will this be the end of the horror?
Overall it was an ok read. Wanted to love it a bit more but I couldnt.
Edward comes across an old cabin with an old mirror inside. The mirror contains a cat and an old lady inside. The old lady wants a soul. Edward is to supply one or himself to her. Will he? And if he does find someone or himself, will this be the end of the horror?
Overall it was an ok read. Wanted to love it a bit more but I couldnt.
June 21, 2026
IN the forgotten town of Beth Haven, where silence hides secrets, and the woods seem to breathe with life of their own, Edward is nothing more then a observer- until the night he witnesses something he was never meant to see.What begins as a disturbing encounter with the towns own authorities quickly spirals into something far darker, pulling him deeper into a world where reality fractures and fear takes form.A strange book, a mirror that does more then reflect. And a sound- soft, haunting. impossible- that refuses to let go.AS Edward searches for answers, he finds himself drawn into an unsettling presence that blurs the line between nightmare and truth. What lurks behind the shadows is not just watching, it is waiting. And once it finds you, there may be no way back.In a place where nothing is as it seems,the greatest danger may already be inside.
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