Bunny Call is the fifth installment of the book series of the franchise: Fazbear Frights. Written by Andrea Waggener and Elley Cooper with Scott Cawthon, published on September 1, 2020.
Summary[]
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live.
In this fifth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
Plot[]
Bunny Call[]
Bob, his wife Wanda, and their three kids, Tyler, Aaron, and Cindy are going on a camping trip to Camp Etenia. Bob, however, is not happy about going and internally takes it out on his family for tricking him into tagging along. When Bob brings his family's signup sheet to the main cabin upon Wanda's request, the woman at the front desk, Marjorie, asks Bob if he would like to sign up for a 'Bunny Call'. This is when the camp mascot named 'Ralpho the Bunny' would come into your cabin and give you a 'wake up call' when it was time to wake up. Enjoying the thought of getting back at his family, Bob agrees.
After a long day, Bob's family goes to sleep. Realizing how much he truly loves his family, Bob instantly regrets signing them up for the Bunny Call. He spends the whole night awake in dread, waiting for 5 am, as he can't stop picturing Ralpho's now-terrifying appearance in the the dark of the night. An hour before the scheduled wake-up call, Bob vows to stop Ralpho.
When Ralpho appears at the doorway, Bob asks him to leave. A few minutes later, Ralpho returns to the porch of the cabin and begins trying to break in. Bob defensively hits Ralpho in the paw through the door, buying himself some time. Then, Ralpho tries to get in through the windows, the trapdoor, and the loft window, where Bob's two boys were sleeping. Luckily, Bob is able to fend off Ralpho just in time for 6 a.m.. Bob hugs his unaware family when they awake, grateful for their safety.
At the camp's breakfast, the camp owner apologizes to those who signed up for a Bunny Call, due to the fact that the counselor who wears the Ralpho suit overslept.
In the Flesh[]
Matt is a game developer, working on a VR game called Springtrap's Revenge. In it, you play as a character in a maze, trying to avoid VR Springtrap. Matt used his anger over his failed relationships with his wife and other people who dumped him to create him. However, when he play tested the game, Springtrap would always kill him. Furiously, Matt created a hellish reality for Springtrap's AI.
The next day, Matt went to check on Springtrap, but he was nowhere to be found. After checking the game's data log, he found out that without a victim to kill, Springtrap had been constantly cloning himself and killing the old version. As a result, his programming was corrupted. Matt went into the game to come into physically contact with Springtrap and felt a sharp sting.
Matt started to be more aggressive and hungrier, striking out on dates. Matt's stomach also looked more bloated than it should. Meanwhile, Springtrap had been extracted from the game and in the game's code is a program called "It's_a_boy.exe." After striking out once more, Matt went home to find a face imprint on his belly. He grabbed a kitchen knife and cut open his chest. Out came a tiny realistic Springtrap, who stroked Matt's cheek and said "Daddy." Matt dies from blood loss.
The story ends with a police officer interrogating Matt's old roommate Jason in his apartment and finding fur from the tiny Springtrap.
The Man in Room 1280[]
Father Arthur Blythe has been assigned to a man in room 1280 of Heracles Hospital. This man-or whatever it was-had a rancid smell, burned skin, and exposed functional organs. The nurses then tell him that something evil is inside this man, but Arthur didn't believe that. After communicating with the man, Arthur revealed that the man wanted to go to the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center so he could die there. He then struggled with getting permission to let the man leave.
Mia, a new nurse at Heracles, overheard the other nurses. The nurses knew that there was no good inside of the man, and plan on killing him. Mia then noticed a little boy with curly black hair and rosy cheeks. He had an alligator mask and a devilish grin. This boy terrorized Mia.
Each one of the nurses attempted to kill the man in room 1280 but failed to do so. One tried to pump enough morphine into the man, but got interrupted by the little boy, and all of the vials exploded. Another tried to suffocate him with a pillow, but the man barfed up blood and a green liquid, causing it to tear through the pillow. The final one tried to release the air out of him but instead the syringe lodged into her throat. She survived and fell on the floor.
Arthur eventually gets permission to take the man to Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center but then Mia realized that the nurses were right all along. She tried to warn Arthur, but it did no good. Arthur then puts the man in a wheelchair and brought the man to the distribution center.
Once Arthur takes the man to the part of the building he wants to go, the man barfed up a tar-like substance all over the factory and finally dies. Arthur looks at his corpse, finding a strange trail of small footprints engraved in the black blood leading toward the shelving units. A man had come in asking if everything is okay. Arthur, for the first time, believed it was not.
Epilogue[]
Detective Larson looked at the evidence stacked in front of him. He had visited Phineas' lab weeks earlier and had a particular interest in the disassembled Fetch, which belonged to Fazbear Entertainment, where several murders had taken place. He connected the dots, concluding that the Stitchwraith was a robotic endoskeleton powered by the dog's battery pack. Later, Larson visits the old fire site. All he knows about the fire was that it was connected to one of the founders of Fazbear Entertainment. As Larson searched through the wreckage, he found something inside of a box that confirmed his theory.
Homeless man Grim had noticed the Stitchwraith again, carrying a large bag. Out of curiosity, he follows it and discovers its hideout; a gigantic warehouse. Grim looked out around the dirty space, taking note of two red flowers that sat on a shelf. He then looked at the bag and could see the arm of an Ella doll sticking out. Eventually, Grim was too freaked out to stay, retreating back to his shed.
Within the Stitchwraith, Jake could sense Grim in the factory, but let him get away since Grim didn't have malicious intentions. He had been collecting Andrew's infected items. Suddenly, Jake remembers a part of his childhood. He remembers his father and him at a baseball game, having fun. Jake felt like he was actually there despite it being just a memory. He was getting sucked into it. As Jake daydreamed, Andrew asked him about the flowers, but Jake didn't listen. He was leaving the body, enticed to become part of the memory. However, Jake stayed, not wanting to leave Andrew. The Stitchwraith went back to business, watering the flowers.
Characters[]
Humans[]
Bunny Call[]
In the Flesh[]
- Matt
- Jamie
- Hannah (Matt's ex-wife)
- Brianna
- Jason
- Eva
- Meghan
- Gary
- Gene
- Gene's Mom
- Madison
- Emma
- The Officer
The Man in Room 1280[]
- Arthur Blythe
- Andrew (as his ghost form)
- Peggy
- Mia Fremont
- Man in Room 1280
- Nurse Ackerman
- Nurse Beatrice Thomas
- Nurse Colton
- Mia's Boyfriend
- Pete Fredericks
- The Boy
- Mr. Nolan
- Elijah Ackerman
- Redheaded Man
Epilogue[]
- Everette Larson
- Grim
- Jake McNally (as Stitchwraith)
- Andrew (as Stitchwraith)
- Phineas Taggart (mentioned)
Animatronics[]
- The Stitchwraith
- Animatronics' Remains
Creatures[]
Locations[]
Bunny Call[]
- Camp Etenia
In the Flesh[]
- Neapolitan
- Ye Olde Steakhouse
- Gus's
- Good Deal
The Man in Room 1280[]
- Heracles Hospital
- Glendale Hospital
- Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center
Trivia[]
Bunny Call[]
- This story introduces a new antagonist, Ralpho.
- This is the second story of the Fazbear Frights series to introduce a new antagonist, the first story being Fetch, where a new animatronic by the same name of the story debuts.
- Despite being in the same world as Fazbear Entertainment, as well as its restaurants, this is the first story to not have a direct connection to the company (assuming that Ralpho wasn't manufactured by them).
- The closest semblance of a connection is when Bob sees Ralpho for the first time and thinks vaguely of pizzerias with similar-looking animatronic mascots.
- While not a perfect analog, the main conflict of this story resembles the main gameplay of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise in that Bob must keep a questionably haunted mascot out of his family's cabin until 6AM by barricading all entrances, failing which would cause a jumpscare for the entire family.
- Ralpho halting his attack exactly at 6AM while in the cabin seems reminiscent of players surviving nights in the first game after losing power but before Freddy would attack.
- There's an argument to be made that this sequence also involves a resource management of sorts in that Bob cannot make too much noise or else he would wake his family.
- Despite Ralpho being described as a human-sized animatronic standing over six feet in the book, he is illustrated resembling a Jolly Chimp on the cover.
- LadyFiszi, the artist who illustrated the Fazbear Frights covers, commented on the discrepancy in his eyes and size saying, "I haven't read the books, I assume the stories were also in process when I was making the covers. I had a description of the bunny thought which didn't mention size and said he was orange, but it was really detailed with other stuff like his outfit. But if you want very accurate artwork just from text, it will never be, despite the text being very-very detailed."
- This story is based off of a real event with Scott and his kids.
- On summer camp, Scott signed up his older children to be apart of "Panda Call," which had killer clowns enter their home to scare them into waking up early. Later that day, Scott regretted this, and woke up at 5 am, basing the story off of the panic induced by the thought that killer clowns were lurking in the dark wilderness. When they arrived at his cabin door, they were non-threatening. He told them he changed his mind, and they walked away.
In the Flesh[]
- The ending is foreshadowed by the story's description, where Matt is said to end up "birthing the horrible consequences."
- It is also foreshadowed by Springtrap's description, where he is referred to as "the child of Matt's rage."
- Furthermore, it is foreshadowed by Matt's refusal of his ex-wife Hannah to become pregnant, as he believed it would ruin her figure. His figure would end up being ruined by a pregnancy.
- Due to Springtrap secretly being in Matt's stomach, and hence the fact that Matt inputted all his rage into Springtrap's programming code, this corrupted Matt to become even worse than he was before.
- This is the second story to have Fazbear Entertainment expand upon just being a children's restaurant chain, the first being Out of Stock. Like FNaF in real life, in this story, the company focused on being a horror video game franchise, as opposed to children's entertainment
- This could also tie in with Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, as the company wanted to make light of their properties and better themselves in the general public. This makes more sense when paired with Glitchtrap's story.
The Man in Room 1280[]
- This is the first story of the Fazbear Frights series where no animatronic is included as the main antagonist.
- Instead of having an animatronic antagonist, a Shadow child entity (who is Andrew from the epilogues) plays an antagonist role.
- The boy in this story is described as to having curly black hair, much like the kid Devon saw as he was being pulled into Golden Freddy at the end of The New Kid.
- Strangely, the nurses had no clue what the man's name was, due to William's DNA not matching any other sample in their database. There also weren't any records of his family.
- This story is presumably the prequel to the Fazbear Frights stories that are connected with the Stitchwraith case.
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