THE BEDLAM BIBLE
by William Pauley III
book one: THE TOWER
Welcome to the Eighth Block Tower, where radiation lingers in the walls and the residents are anything but ordinary!
These three interconnected tales explore a place where perception is warped, trust is fragile, and survival is a daily struggle. As the residents of Eighth Block Tower confront the horrifying truths within their decaying home, they too must fight to keep their sanity!
Will they uncover the secrets of the tower before it consumes them entirely, or are they all just puppets in a much larger, more terrifying game?
HYPNAGOGIA: Meet the narrator and his companion Buzz, long-time denizens of "The Cliff," a particularly notorious section of the tower rumored to be riddled with radiation. Buzz, whose mutated form is a constant reminder of their strange existence, is convinced the radiation in the walls is driving everyone mad. Their lives revolve around peculiar daily rituals, one of which takes a terrifying turn, leaving the narrator haunted by the possibility that they've inadvertently murdered the one and true God.
THE INVALIDS: A series of brutal murders rip through the tower, just as Norm and Samantha discover microphones have been hidden in each of their apartments. During their investigation, they stumble upon a sinister conspiracy that might be connected to the killings—a basement containing ancient recording equipment and tapes labeled with the names of female residents, suggesting the killer has a disturbing voyeuristic obsession. Survival becomes a desperate fight as the line between reality and hallucination blurs within the tower's toxic walls.
UNDER GREEN BRAIN: Crater, a kitchen worker desperate to escape the tower's influence, grapples with his own sanity amidst the building's pervasive strangeness. His reality takes a bizarre turn when he discovers a giant, pulsating green brain hidden within a liminal space at the top of the building—the apparent source of the radiation and possibly his own madness.Enter The Tower, if you dare! Sanity is a myth! Sickness is life!
book two: WHITE FUZZ
Norm awakens to the cryptic words "white fuzz" scrawled in his notebook, a chilling mystery he can't recall writing or even thinking. This unsettling discovery is quickly followed by a perplexing text from a stranger named Lynda, pulling him into a late-night encounter that will shatter his perception of reality.
What begins as an impulsive rendezvous quickly spirals into a nightmarish and surreal experience. From unsettling discoveries within Lynda's apartment to her increasingly erratic behavior, and the strange occurrences within the building itself—Norm finds himself caught in a whirlwind of confusion, dark revelations, and inexplicable phenomena.
Can he unravel the mystery behind "white fuzz" and understand the truth about Lynda before the night consumes them both?
Prepare for a descent into the darkly comic and utterly bizarre, where the unexpected is the only certainty, and the consequences of a random invitation are far more profound than anyone could imagine!
book three: THE ASTRONAUT DREAM BOOK
In the claustrophobic depths of the Eighth Block Tower, a prisoner known only as 'the Lieutenant' endures maddening confinement, punctuated by a mysterious, rhythmic drumming. His only link to survival, a frail caretaker, has vanished, leaving him to the gnawing grip of hunger and the fear of an unknown presence lurking in the shadows.
Hope arrives in the innocent form of a little boy, but their game of "Red Tomato" quickly twists into a nightmare of primal hunger and a shocking act of desperation that unleashes a deadly consequence.
Afterwards, the man is hoplessly plagued with unsettling visions of astronauts, all trapped in their own unique vicious cycles, each one more horrific than the last.
Dive into "The Astronaut Dream Book" for a mind-bending journey where the boundaries of reality dissolve, and the darkest corners of fear and obsession are illuminated by the cold light of the cosmos and the unsettling glow of the Eighth Block Tower.
book four: FIGHT TUB
The story of a man who became his bathroom.
book five: THE BALLAD OF OLD JOE BOOTH
Some monsters are impossible to see.
Old Joe Booth is a tricky shape-shifting devil, a vapor witch, and an endlessly mutating disease that embodies the truest horrors of the mind. This terrifying entity can alter thoughts, break down defenses, and reduce those it touches to madness.
The Ballad of Old Joe Booth tells its entire chilling history.
Witness the hellion’s monstrous journey through various forms: from its blood-curdling birth as a demon deep-sea angler fish to its transformation into a howling terror that brings a new kind of darkness, always seeking to feed its incessantly hungry maw.
Then comes the harrowing story of five soldiers who, after eleven years of hunting it, finally confront the beast. They make a desperate deal with the naked, hideous creature—a grim exchange you will never forget!
As you’ll soon learn, we are all plagued by this horrid beast, but do not fret! There is life after Old Joe Booth, and it is glorious. But first, you must survive the journey.
book six: HOLUS BOLUS
OUR PROTAGONIST is pretty sure he's just committed a murder. The body is newly dead, he's the only one around, and a quick look at the evidence suggests he's guilty as sin.
Also, he's totally insane.
A rare brain condition causes his memories to reset every day, and because of this, he often wakes up in strange places with no memory of how he got there. He can't even remember his own name. When he's not racking his brain over his shoddy memory, he's arguing incessantly with a disembodied voice that doesn't seem to belong to him, one he can only hear inside his head.
He may not know much about the troubling situation he just woke up to, but he knows, without a doubt, that he's completely f*cked.
While the odds are certainly stacked against him, there may be hope for our protagonist yet, for clutched in the corpse's cold, clammy hands is a handwritten tome that suggests not only his innocence, but also reveals some bizarre and dangerous secrets, leading him to believe his own apartment building may be to blame... or is, at the very least, an accomplice.
That sounded better inside his head.
Luckily he's not the only one trying to solve the case. The book also leads him to a group of outcasts who are in the midst of their own investigation. The only problem? They all suspect one another!
One thing's for certain, someone inside the tower is a cold-blooded killer. Can our protagonist solve the murder before he falls asleep and his memories reset? Or worse, before the killer strikes again?
Find out in HOLUS BOLUS. You'll be pushed to the very edge of sanity!
book seven: TWELVE RESIDENTS DREAMING
Plunged into depths where reality bends and death offers chilling invitations, one man fights to control his fate…
Anacoy Marlin’s journey begins adrift on a meager raft, his only companion a strangely preserved corpse whose body is a canvas for ancient, sprawling tattoos—a text holding dark knowledge. Drawn by a mysterious blue flame beacon, he navigates a storm-tossed sea, guided by secrets etched on dead flesh.
His path leads to the impossible Eighth Block Tower, a colossal structure defying the waves. Submerged and cavernous like a forgotten church, he discovers the tower is hiding twelve skulls in an underwater graveyard, and each attack his mind with disturbing visions when touched.
He soon realizes these deranged scenes are more than just random visions, they are the memories of twelve long-since-dead residents, and each of their stories are present in this single volume.
Twelve Residents Dreaming is the shocking conclusion to The Bedlam Bible, and very much reads as a grand finale to these impossibly psychedelic tales. If you so dare to read from these madness-soaked pages, know that your mind will become a battleground and the cost of failure will be your very existence.
bonus story: CREATURES