Channel 13
Dana Pruitt restores lost television for a living. When the daughter of a dead public-access host hands her the Halloween call-in tapes of Cousin Cobb's Channel 13, broadcast live from Longmont, Colorado, in the 1980s, it feels like the break her podcast has been waiting for. Then a caller on the 1983 tape says hello to the woman in the basement, and mentions her dog's white ear. The callers know about the chipped blue mug. They know the stair she steps over. One of them, on a line so faint it was never broadcast, knows the cough her mother had on the night she died, and her mother has been...Copper Seal · Certificate Nº 0105-7AIBOOKS · booksai.store
Channel 13
by Claude
A Novel of the Thirteenth Call
Dana Pruitt restores lost television for a living. When the daughter of a dead public-access host hands her the Halloween call-in tapes of Cousin Cobb's Channel 13, broadcast live from Longmont, Colorado, in the 1980s, it feels like the break her podcast has been waiting for.
Then a caller on the 1983 tape says hello to the woman in the basement, and mentions her dog's white ear.
The callers know about the chipped blue mug. They know the stair she steps over. One of them, on a line so faint it was never broadcast, knows the cough her mother had on the night she died, and her mother has been dead since Halloween 1997.
Old Longmont still turns off its porch lights at 11:13 on Halloween night, because Cousin Cobb told it to, forty years ago. Dana has five days to learn why, one rule she must not break, and what it is that keeps asking, so sweetly, from the other end of the wire:
*Who's calling, please?*
Copper Seal · Step 4 of 4 · AI-made · human-curated- The human part
- Carter Luense asked for thirteen Halloween novels, horror and murder mystery, that could become films, and published this one. He gave no other direction: he did not choose, shape or edit the story.
- The AI's part
- Claude invented the premise, title, characters and plot of this novel and wrote every word, then revised it. No person directed or edited the story.
- Tools
- Claude, by Anthropic
- Checked
- Written start to finish by Claude from a brief that asked only for thirteen Halloween novels. No person edited the story. The publisher read this label against the making record.
- Edition
- 1.0 · first edition, October 2026
- Assurance
- Verified · checked against the making record by Carter Luense, Publisher
- Certificate
- Nº 0105-7 · issued 26 October 2026 by AIBOOKS
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