Before You Wake

When nightmares cross into the waking world, how can one define reality?

Is the darkened figure you feel staring at you in your bed simply a manifestation of your imagination? Or is it something more ... something sinister?

For Aiden Wood, sleep paralysis has always been a thing of the past. Strange, yet terrifying, the experience is one he has long avoided with the introduction of therapy.

Now, it's back and very different than before.

Helpless and fighting to breathe, a new nightmare is unleashed, and Aiden must fight to save not only his sanity but those around him from the evil clawing free from the darkness...

Daniel Riedl has always had an interest in writing stories. He is fascinated in the process of creating relatable characters and immersive tales. Daniel also enjoys exploring difficult philosophical problems and psychological workings overall. While his passion for history and mythology is perhaps the main driving force for his writing, Daniel has also found horror and the supernatural to be the perfect genre to explore some of these themes. He has even taken his own terrifying real-life experiences with sleep paralysis and turned them into inspiration.