The Silent End is a horror novel by Samuel Sattin and published by Ragnarok Publications.
In a mist-covered town in the Pacific Northwest three teenagers find themselves pitted against an unearthly menace that dwells beneath the foundations of their high school...
Eberstark is an outcast and he's tired of pretending everything is fine. His mother disappeared almost a year ago after a long battle with depression. His father is conducting experiments and running around town in the middle of the night with a mysterious man known only as The Hat, ranting to Eberstark about beasts no one else can see.
Then on Halloween night, Eberstark, alongside his only friends Lexi and Gus, discovers something in the woods to challenge his father's apparent insanity: a wounded monster. Rather than stir the town into a frenzy, the three friends hide the creature and are pulled into a web of conspiracy, dream-logic, and death. Faced down by living trucks, mirror-dwelling psychopaths, and hellish entities who lurk behind friendly faces, Eberstark, Lexi, and Gus find themselves battling to save not just themselves, but the soul of their quiet little town.
- Adults Are Useless: A Justified trope as they're either driven insane or killed by the horror afflicting the town.
- Applied Phlebotinum: The goop can bring to life inanimate objects among other properties. It's also alive in a way which is only visible underneath a magnifying glass and is made of people.
- Bittersweet Ending: They successfully free the women captured and tormented by their captors but Eberstark's father is dead and it doesn't erase all the suffering they went through.
- Bystander Syndrome: With the exception of Eberstark's father, no one tries to do anything about the 'monsters.'
- Crapsaccharine World: Mossglow appears to be the kind of place where you can make a good living enjoying the peace and quiet of country life. It's actually a nightmarish dream-logic land where women are in particular danger and no one does anything about it.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Played with. Some of the creations of the goop are horrific and malevolent while others are helpful. All of them seem to be operating on Blue-and-Orange Morality, though.
- The Extremist Was Right: Subverted. Eberstark's father is entirely correct in his belief monsters afflict the town. All of his efforts and plans, however, have no ability to deal with the problem. They're simply to make him feel better about having failed to protect his wife.
- Friend to All Living Things: Eberstark and company's reaction to finding a wounded monster? Befriend it.
- No Woman's Land: The town has a horrible history of women disappearing. Because they're being kidnapped to become part of a Body Horror Magitek construct.
- Only Sane Man: Eberstark, Gus, and Lexi seem to be the only people who recognize how horrifying their town is. Other people do but they have a tendency to die horribly.
- Ship Sinking: Eberstark and Lexi with one causal line from the latter revealing his crush was always misguided.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A major source of the book's horror. People just shrug off absolutely nightmarish and horrifying events.
