By Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley
A graphic novel that tells the story behind the Five Nights at Freddy's games: a teenage girl goes back to the abandoned pizzeria where children once went missing, and the animatronics on the old stage are still moving in the dark.
Charlie returns to her hometown for a memorial and finds herself drawn back to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the restaurant her father built, the one that shut down after several children went missing there years ago. She and a few old friends slip into the ruined building, where the four animatronics that used to sing at birthday parties are still standing on the stage. They aren't switched off, and they aren't empty. Anyone who's followed the Five Nights at Freddy's games already knows the pieces here: the haunted pizzeria, the missing children, the man behind it. This is that story told in full color as a real horror-mystery, the version a child who's watched every FNAF video online has never gotten to read until now.
The FNAF-obsessed child, the one who talks endlessly about lore they've only ever gotten from videos, is exactly who this is for. The graphic novel meets them right where their attention already lives: the art carries the dread, the pages turn fast, and the mystery they think they know pays off on the page. It's also the scariest, most grown-up pick on this shelf, so it's the one I'd hold in reserve for the older child who swears nothing on paper could compete with a screen. Hand them this and let it make the case.