Paxton Silver
Paxton Silver writes psychological suspense about the unsettling distance between what people remember, what they believe, and what actually happened.
Exploring unreliable memory, collective certainty, and the hidden mechanisms of human perception, Silver's fiction asks a disturbing question: What happens when everyone agrees on something that isn't true?
The Consensus Reality Series
The Consensus Fallacy follows a journalist investigating why an entire town remembers the murder of a woman who is still alive, while another woman’s disappearance goes largely unquestioned.
Paracosmic Phenomena follows a family-services investigator unraveling the mystery of children who never existed, while a real child’s life is threatened by a carefully engineered deception.
Contradictory Evidence — When half a town remembers a deadly school fire that never happened, a university archivist uncovers a far more dangerous truth buried in missing records.
Paradoxical Hiatus — When an entire town remembers an evacuation that never happened, an emergency manager uncovers the real 72-hour disappearance hidden beneath years of manufactured memories.
The Enigma Deception brings the Consensus Reality series to a chilling conclusion as a determined doctoral student exposes the truth behind Oyster Harbor’s manufactured memories and the respected professor who orchestrated them.