I read about this kinda creepy and unexplained anecdote by former talk show host Dick Cavett, where a guest on his show died during taping. Despite the episode never being broadcast, for years Dick has run into fans who seem to vividly recall not only seeing that episode on TV, but “the look on your face when your guest passed away”.
I’m looking for short stories and books that involve this concept to some degree. It can an unnerving mystery or horror, something supernatural or more realism, maybe the character thought it was a false memory but it actually did happen, maybe just affecting a couple people who are unsettled by something from the past or involving a lot of people like in that Cavett anecdote, just something involving the idea of distorted or false, or seemingly false memory.
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“Mary: An Awakening of Terror” by Nat Cassidy is a horror novel about an unsuccessful middle-aged woman with memory issues returning to her creepy hometown. It plays with ideas about how we remember key events in our lives, saying more would be a spoiler.
Tell me your dreams— Sidney Sheldon
Short story “Smother” by Joyce Carol Oates. The book is “Give me your heart” iirc