The Lonely Ones (Little Nightmares: An Original Novel)

The Lonely Ones (Little Nightmares: An Original Novel) by E C Myers tells a haunting tale that begins with Ruse. She remembers water, darkness, and then nothing. Nothing—and then suddenly she’s awake in a shaking room she doesn’t recognise.

Ruse doesn’t recognise the other children in the room either—one is a small girl with a frayed rope dangling from her neck, the other a starved-looking boy wearing a tattered mask over his mouth and nose. Wherever they are, it isn’t safe.

Flashing colours and bizarre sounds filter through the cracks in the wood, revealing a nightmarish carnival. Ruse knows she must escape, but questions linger: are her new companions friends, or enemies? In a place where one wrong move can land you in the arms of monsters—and worse—Ruse must find a way to survive.

Can she and her new companions possibly endure this frightening and twisted world? Or will they be warped forevermore by its dark influence?