The Name-Eater (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798288021657)

The Name-Eater
By Philip Stengel

Some bargains don't cost your soul. They erase it.

Seventeen years ago, Elara made a deal to save her unborn son-a name traded for a miracle. She thought the nightmare ended there. But in the village of Vergessen, people are vanishing-not in body, but in memory. Entire lives unspool, leaving no trace but a nameless void. Only Elara remembers. Only she sees the pattern.

The Patchwork Man walks again-a creature stitched from the stolen identities of the forgotten, feeding on desperation, wearing the faces of those erased. As a rising tide of oblivion threatens to consume her world, Elara must confront the truth: the monster wasn't defeated. He evolved.

The Name-Eater is a psychological horror fable woven with myth, memory, and maternal rage. A haunting reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin legend, it explores the terrible cost of forgetting-and the power of one woman who refuses to.