He thought the nightmare ended when his father died. But some shadows never leave.

Seventeen-year-old Adam has just buried his father, a quiet man haunted by things he never explained. But when Adam starts waking up at night, frozen in place and unable to move or scream, he begins to wonder if the darkness his father feared was never gone.

A tall, faceless figure begins to appear during sleep paralysis. It says nothing. It only watches. When Adam discovers a hidden journal filled with terrifying entries and drawings, he realizes his father saw the same thing.

As the presence grows stronger and more familiar, Adam starts to question everything. Is it a curse? A mental illness? Or something deeper, something that lives between sleep and waking? Some fears do not die. They are passed on.

The Shadow in My Room is a psychological horror novella about inherited fear, sleep paralysis, and the monsters that wait in the mind. A slow, chilling descent into a nightmare that feels almost too real.