Annie Neugebauer is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award(R)-nominated short story author. She's the author of The Outsiders Sequence (The Extra, The Other, and The Spare) and You Have to Let Them Bleed. Visit her at annieneugebauer.com, in most places under @AnnieNeugebauer, or frolicking through the abyss.

"A nearly perfect, claustrophobic novella with a very effective countdown clock. If you have time for only one terrifying tale this spooky season, make room for The Extra."-- "The Wall Street Journal"

"The Extra is a fantastic calling card for the author. This is a mood book. And the mood is unbearable, slow-boiling tension. One of the most nail-biting endings of the year."-- "Grimdark Magazine"

"Neugebauer's The Extra is an exquisite and anxiety-inducing work of horror that had me vicariously stressed the heck out along with the protagonist. Worth every white hair it gave me."--Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing but Blackened Teeth

"An absolutely killer premise executed with such slithery, sinewy care. After finishing Annie Neugebauer's The Extra, you'll find yourself carrying an additional fear you definitely didn't have before you started."--Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and I Know A Place

"Annie Neugebauer spins a disturbing tale of paranoia, identity, and horror packed with twists you absolutely won't see coming! Highly recommended!"--Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Burn to Shine and Cold War

"Annie Neugebauer pedals in the same alpine paranoia as John Carpenter's classic The Thing, manifesting a sense of dissociative anxiety that only mounts with every turn of the page. The Extra is exceptional in every way: Extra unnerving, extra eerie, extra tense."--Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Publisher: Shortwave

Pub date: 2026-03-24

Length: 152 pages