The Mimic: You Wanted A New Killer. Congratulations - You Made Me - Paperback

The Mimic by Jimmy Star

Some killers hide behind masks. This one hides behind your reflection.

In the suburbs of Chicago, a new kind of horror is streaming live. It starts as a glitch - a strange hum inside viral videos, a face that shouldn't be there, a figure moving half a second late. Then people start dying on camera.

Filmmaker Vega Wells calls it The Mimic - a self-aware entity born from discarded content, learning how to kill the way influencers learn how to trend. Together with a cynical detective, a burned-out cameraman, and a final boy who refuses to die, Vega races to expose the truth before The Mimic turns the entire internet into its stage.

But you can't go viral without going visible. And once it sees you... it edits you in.

A savage, stylish reinvention of the slasher myth, The Mimic blends the meta-horror wit of Scream with the cold paranoia of

Black Mirror. It's a story about fame, fear, and the cost of being watched - when the killer isn't behind you... it's inside your feed.