The First Lie That Changed Everything
The First Lie That Changed Everything Sometimes the scariest stories aren’t about monsters hiding in the dark—they’re about people who think they’re doing the right thing. Philip Wittebane and the First Body is a gothic horror story about a man who arrives in a strange world looking for knowledge, not power… and slowly convinces himself that terrible choices are necessary. Philip doesn’t wake up evil. He studies. He experiments. He tells himself each step makes sense. But the magic around him doesn’t just work—it listens. And when a body is created that should never have existed, Philip is forced to face a question that changes everything: what happens when your mistakes can breathe? This book isn’t just scary. It’s uncomfortable in a quiet way. It asks how lies are born, how history gets rewritten, and how easy it is to justify harm when no one is watching. The horror comes from the thoughts, the choices, and the moment when Philip writes down a lie so clean it looks like ...