The Broken Window

By: John Anthony Davis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A single broken window. A town slowly coming apart.

For fourteen years, the cracked pane in the old Varney house has watched over Castle Rock. It’s just a local curiosity, a ghost story for kids. No one bothers to fix it.

No one notices the changes, either. The librarian’s kindness curdles into cruelty. The barber’s steady hand begins to slip. Arguments flare over nothing. A low, mean mood settles over the town like a poison fog. They call it The Grinding.

The Loughlin family doesn’t know any of this when they move into the house on Willow Street. David, the history teacher, just sees a fixer-upper. Sarah, the artist, sees potential. Their sons, golden-boy Mark and sensitive Jesse, see a new start.

But Jesse feels it first—a constant, subsonic hum in his teeth, nightmares of casual cruelty. He sees the crack in the bay window not as damage, but as a source. A transmitter. And it’s broadcasting a signal, a frequency of pure, amplified spite left by the house’s bitter, dead owner. It’s turning up the volume on every dark thought, every secret resentment, in everyone it touches.

As his father’s patience shatters, his mother’s art turns monstrous, and his brother’s charm warps into something cold and vicious, Jesse realizes the terrible truth: the window isn’t just broken. It’s breaking them. And if he can’t find a way to silence its hateful whisper, it will tear his family—and the whole town—apart from the inside out.

A chilling novel of psychological horror in the tradition of Stephen King, THE UNREPAIRED is a story about the cracks we ignore, the anger we nurture, and the devastating cost of leaving something broken for too long.