2025, Season Two

System: PBTA Monster of the Week

Urban Fantasy, Alt 1980s, Weird America, Monsters Among Us, Paranormal High School

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Player Rating: Not yet Rated

In 1980s America, the veil is thinning; forgotten fae, leaking portals, and a haunted river of memory. Welcome to high school.

In River of Books, the supernatural never went away, it just learned to hide better. One hundred years after the secret war of 1880, when The Book Shop first battled to keep the fae world hidden, the veil separating fae and mortal realms is wearing thin. Portals known as “Rivers of Books” are surfacing more frequently, bleeding memories, monsters, and secrets into the cracks of modern-day life.

The fae are not united, the mortals are not innocent, and The Book Shop is spread too thin to hold back the tide alone. Amid the growing chaos, a group of high school students, some fully human, others half-born, stumble into the conflict after witnessing an impossible event.

Uncover buried truths

Whether it’s a missing student’s real identity, a fae relic, or the memory of a promise someone no longer remembers making, the cast are constantly faced with the river.

The cast must decide: do they expose the truth, even if it causes harm? Do they protect it, even if it means lying? Or do they rewrite it, shaping a new future at a terrible cost? These choices define their power in this world. Because here, truth is never just knowledge, its a currency, weapon, and curse.

Cast: TBC

Styles: 80s Paranormal, Investigative, Kids on Bikes.

This series is: slow-burn paranormal, teen drama, strenge horror

The River of Books

The River of Books is not water, but words. Flowing between worlds, it contains every memory ever lived, forgotten, or imagined. It does not run in straight lines, and time means nothing once you step into it. Portals to the River can appear anywhere stories collect—beneath old desks, behind library shelves, even inside a cracked VHS tape. When someone opens a River fragment, they don’t just read, they remember something that might not have happened yet. Travelers risk losing themselves in recursive memory loops, and some never return as they were. More than a setting, the River is a character—hungry, mysterious, and watching.

The Book Shop

Founded in the 1800s after the first River breaches, The Book Shop began as a secret society of scholars, occultists, and renegade fae working to preserve the divide between worlds. By 1984, it is a crumbling institution—still powerful in knowledge, but scattered and reactive. Its agents are overstretched, and some are little more than librarians with wards carved into their bones. While their mission remains intact, their methods are increasingly desperate. Most citizens have never heard of them, and many who do consider them conspiracy theorists. They still maintain hidden offices in forgotten basements, used bookstores, and even inside school storage closets, but they can’t be everywhere anymore. And the River knows that.

The Half-Born

Half-born are children of mortals and fae, born into a liminal space between worlds. Their powers are subtle and often unreliable; maybe they see through glamour by accident, or they dream of places that haven’t existed yet. Many don't even know what they are until something changes: a touch that burns, a whisper that answers back, a memory that doesn't belong to them. In fae society, half-born are considered impure or dangerous. In the mortal world, they're seen as odd, sensitive, or delusional. But in this new era of River breaches and broken wards, they may be the only ones able to navigate both realms—if they survive long enough to choose a side.

Episodes

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Something in the Stacks

Air Date: TBC

When a student is found catatonic in the school library, whispering secrets he shouldn't know, a group of unlikely teens are drawn together by the mystery. As memories start to blur and a strange book seems to move on its own, they uncover a portal to something older, and hungrier, hiding in the walls of their school.