Lin Shen, a former criminal investigator, has a secret: he can see things no one else can.
After leaving the force, he makes a living writing urban ghost stories, but unexpectedly gets caught up in a series of bizarre deaths. Three victims were found with terrified expressions, their hair completely white and fallen out. All of them had visited the same barbershop before they died. As Lin Shen investigates, he uncovers a truth that upends everything he knows: human fear can take shape as “fear entities.” They feed on fear, and the more people are afraid, the stronger they become. The reason he can see them is that the most powerful being in history is sealed inside him: Primordial Fear.
More terrifying still, his memories from before the age of sixteen have been deliberately erased. His grandmother’s portrait smiles at him, and his father, missing for years, turns out to be the leader of a mysterious organization called the New World Society. The organization is trying to unleash Primordial Fear and create a utopia “without fear.”
Each volume introduces its own rules: the barber paradox, the elevator game, don’t look back, the silent majority... Lin Shen must find loopholes in the rules and keep his wits about him amid the terror. But as the seven seals open one by one, he discovers that the thing he must face is not just a monster...
It is the thing awakening inside him.
When fear becomes real, the person who feels none is the greatest danger of all.
