Tulpamancer: Mind Worms Kill

By: Jerry Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

His tulpa nearly killed him. Now a child version of her may be the only thing that can save the world.

Three months after Alexa's destruction, writer John Walker finds something impossible in the ruins of his mental library — a three-year-old girl with ancient eyes and no memory of the monster she once was.

Then the mind worms come.

Parasitic entities that eat memories, create false ones, and stitch infected minds into a hive. They spread through the simplest thing in the world: human connection. From John to his therapist, then exponentially outward — every relationship becomes a vector, every thought a vulnerability.

But the worms aren't the real threat. They're refugees, fleeing something far worse.
When Alexa died, she tore a hole between the layers of consciousness. Through that wound came the Void — not evil, but entropy itself. The silence between thoughts. The unmaking of everything that is.

Now John's tulpas are barely holding the defenses, a child who exists in all times simultaneously holds a weapon she doesn't understand, and the boundary between imagination and reality is collapsing faster than anyone can stop it.
MIND WORMS KILL is the second book in the Tulpamancer series — a mind-bending psychological thriller where imaginary friends are real, memories are contagious, and consciousness itself is under siege.

For fans of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, Scott Hawkins' The Library at Mount Char, and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.