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.

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.