An internet meme, a crowd-sourced horror story, a dark figure who bends reality: SLENDERMAN.


Lauren Bailey has disappeared.


As friends at her exclusive school speculate and the police search for answers, Matt Barker dreams of trees and a black sky and something drawing closer.


Through fragments of journals, articles and online conversations, a figure begins to emerge - a tall, slender figure - and all divisions between fiction and delusion, between nightmare and reality, begin to fall.