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Dathan Auerbach only wanted to scare a few people on Reddit.

It was September 2011, and the Pensacola, Florida, native was checking out some user-posted stories on "NoSleep," a subreddit.

The message board thread allows registered visitors to upload original, personal tales of terror, and Auerbach had a whopper to share. Titled "Footsteps," the then-26-year-old college philosophy teacher's story was a foggy first-person perspective recollection of the time when, for no discernible reason, he woke up in the woods, not his comfortable bunk bed.

NoSleep readers loved it and wanted more, so Auerbach—who'd never written any fiction prior to "Footsteps"—quickly put together a follow-up, "Balloons." The cycle repeated itself through the beginning of October.

Eleven months later, Auerbach self-published—via hi