The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller (World's Scariest Legends)

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Ranked #99 in Books & Media

Quick answer The The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat by by Jeremy Bates (Author) Format: Paperback scores 8.4/10 with us. Amazon owners rate it 4.2 out of 5 across 9,210 reviews, below the 4.5 average of the 347 products we track in Books & Media. It was listed at $7.95 on Amazon when we last checked in September 2026.

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Product information

11 specifications
Publisher‎ Ghillinnein Books
Publication date‎ July 7, 2019
Edition‎ Standard Edition
Language‎ English
Print length‎ 251 pages
ISBN-10‎ 1988091381
ISBN-13‎ 978-1988091389
Item Weight‎ 13.4 ounces
Reading age‎ 13 - 18 years
Dimensions‎ 6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
Book 1 of 7‎ World's Scariest Legends

The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat: questions & answers

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Owners are lukewarm on it, so compare the alternatives before buying. We score the The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat 8.4 out of 10. Amazon owners rate it 4.2 out of 5 across 9,210 reviews, below the 4.5 average of the 347 products we track in Books & Media.

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Customer reviews

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Breakdown from the 10 most helpful reviews we imported.

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Quetzal
Verified purchaseJuly 2, 2025
The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat

Creepy, Addictive, and Utterly Unforgettable!The Sleep Experiment is a dark and gripping psychological thriller that completely pulled me in. The story is intense, twisted, and deeply disturbing in the best way possible. Jeremy Bates does an incredible job building suspense and exploring the horrors of the human mind.I couldn’t put it down. The tension keeps building, and just when you think it can’t get worse... it does.If you love dark thrillers with a psychological edge, this one’s a must-read!

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ChibiNeko
Verified purchaseOctober 31, 2020
Some characters could be better, but horror is on point

This isn't a perfect book, but it's one that I tore through fairly quickly.First, the good:The horror and tension in this book are fairly well done. Everything builds up fairly well and while it's apparent early on that things are not OK, that just lends to the horror. It's all something that could translate into a film very easily, to the point where I wouldn't be surprised to discover that the author either created a script for this after writing it or had one outlined already. His strong suit is honestly the scenes of terror, which are the ones that seem to have been lavished upon more. And

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Amazon Customer
Verified purchaseMarch 25, 2021
Grotesquely horrifying deliciousness.

Every single time I read a Jeremy Bates book it reminds me exactly why I love reading Jeremy Bates books so much.I still have a few that I haven't read yet, I own them already, but am stretching them out so I always have a new one to read whenever I want. This story was an absolute nightmare from beginning to end and I loved every single page of it.“But we need sleep. You, me, everybody! You can’t just not sleep.”Dr. Wallis smiled. “That hypothesis is what I intend to challenge over the next twenty-one days.”I have been intensely eager to read this one for awhile now, I was hooked within minut

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lynguy1
Verified purchaseDecember 27, 2023
Chilling and Shocking

The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates is a chilling horror tale that will keep readers turning the pages. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, the head of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley is attempting a sleep deprivation experiment using a stimulant gas. With two Australian test subjects under surveillance around the clock, he and his two student assistants (Penny Park and Guru Rampal) will record their findings. These will include general observations as well as various test results. The experiment is scheduled to last twenty-one days. But the situation soon becomes a nightmare.Wall

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Run
Verified purchaseMarch 27, 2020
A good read with a few annoying quirks

Overall this book in a good read. Beginning with complaints the story's epilogue ending felt a bit forced and potentially unnecessary. In addition the character Brooke had an unremarkable resolve. I desperately wanted her to succeed in her mission near the end of the book (without giving plot points away.) Some of the pacing and side scenes seemed a little unnecessary however, they were few and far between.read of stereotypical characters from other reviewers before reading the book and typically found them nonexistent 95% of the time. Sure, it begins a bit like it but they seem to disappear a

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Cheryl Miller
Verified purchaseJanuary 30, 2026
Fantastic author

This is the first book by Jeremy Bates I have read. I don't know how I have missed his books!! The genre is my favorite and he is a fantastic writer. The book is exciting, scary and intriguing. I love the way he writes and I will buy EVERY book of his!!

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J. Rice
Verified purchaseNovember 14, 2020
Disturbing; I liked it

The promotional blurbs on the cover, etc. say this writer is like Stephen King. I disagree. I'm an avid King reader, and this book doesn't read like King to me; rather, I think Bates has his own unique style.Very good character development, especially of the antihero's character. It's very well done and very troubling.My only problem (reason for four instead of five stars) is with realism. This is not fantasy genre. It's set in specific, real locations (Berkeley, Oakland, S.F., and Marin County's Samuel P. Taylor Park), during a specific time-frame (May - June 2018). As such, it should be true

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natalie
Verified purchaseApril 5, 2025
too good!

I was hesitant when I saw this was based around the famous sleep experiment creppypasta but after I read a few chapters I was hooked, I finished the book in a couple of days, the way it’s written it gives the right amount of details to the story and it’s not like just fantasy based with made up facts it has real scientific knowledge to support the sleep experiment described so it sounds very plausible and like it really did happen, or could happen, it gave good back story on the main character and the supporting characters, but again what I really liked was all the scientific knowledge in the

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