In many stories that have been written, the time at which all manner of terrible things happen, is midnight. murders, hauntings, the unexplained, and so much more, making midnight the perfect time in which to pull a reader into the story being told. Such a powerful time, providing the author with little need to expand, they can be confident in the knowledge that by simply choosing this hour, that most readers will at once be nervous, impatient to discover what horrors they are about to be subjected to. When Abigail Sharpe attends an interview to become the narrator of stories to be read at midnight, she finds herself in her own nightmare, held a prisoner, and forced to read terrible tales at the witching hour. The stories she is forced to tell are all meant to unsettle, disturb, and to put anyone listening to them on edge, even more so since as Abigail reads out these stories, they become some unfortunate persons reality.