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The Silver Eyes

Book 1 of Five Nights At Freddy's

  • 396 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 22 editions

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1 About this book

Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years.

After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret . . . and a murderous agenda.

  • Horror
  • Psychology
  • Murder
  • Survival
  • Robots
  • Zombies
  • Media tie-in

2 What to expect

A young adult horror novel set in the world of the Five Nights at Freddy's video games: ten years after children were murdered at a family pizzeria, a group of old friends return to the abandoned building. It is a slow-building mystery about what happened there, with the restaurant's animatronic mascots as the threat, and it centers on Charlie, the daughter of the man who owned the place. It tells its own version of the story, and two sequels follow.

Good for readers who want: horror, a survival story, and robots.

3 About Scott Cawthon

Born 1971

Scott Braden Cawthon (born June 4, 1978) is an American video game developer, writer, and producer best known for creating Five Nights at Freddy's, a series of horror video games which expanded into a media franchise. Cawthon began his career developing family-friendly Christian video games to minimal success.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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