Fazbear Frights: Felix the Shark is an unofficial twelfth volume of the Fazbear Frights series from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. Written by Elley Cooper and Andrea Waggener with Scott Cawthon, it is intended to be released on April 5, 2022, as a bonus alongside the third Fazbear Frights box set.
While the physical version will be exclusive to the box set, a digital version can be sold separately. This book contains scrapped stories from the main Fazbear Frights series that were originally supposed to be in the other main eleven books. While this book will be the core finale of the series, it is not connected to the main Fazbear Frights timeline and thus serves as a book bearing scrapped content.
Summary
Don't miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest player up at night...
A dark bridge to the past...Dirk sets out on a long-shot quest to recapture a cherished childhood memory from a unique animatronic pizzeria. Mandy finds something lurking in the files of her favorite horror game and opens herself up to a haunting. In light of her son's fascination with Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Sylvia buys her son a unique birthday present — a Freddy Fazbear mask that's the genuine article...in more ways than one.
In this twelfth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon. These tales may have ended up on the cutting room floor while developing the Fazbear Frights series, but they bring no less terror in the telling.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
Scrapped Stories
Plot
Felix the Shark
Dirk, an adult, reminisces about Freddy's with his group of friends. They all bond over the familiar characters of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. However, when Dirk brings up the character Felix the Shark, his friends are confused. He recalls specific details — that Felix the Shark was kept in an aquarium-like large tube around the pizzeria that visitors could enter and swim along with him in — but his friends believe that he is making it up.
Determined to prove that his memory of Felix was true, Dirk visits multiple Freddy's locations in many states to find the one that used to have Felix. Finally, in a near-abandoned town, he finds a few people who remember Felix, all of whom had terrible nightmares concerning him. He investigates the town for clues and learns that the pizzeria was built by Aaron Sanders. According to rumors, after his son drowned at a beach, his body was pushed onto shore by a shark. Shortly after his son's death, Aaron obsessively focused on building a shark animatronic for his pizzeria. Dirk visits Louisa Sanders, the daughter of the former owner at a mental hospital for information, who only gives him a book that she wrote and the pendant that she was wearing.
The book, The Dogged Dogmatist, is about a man who meets uncertain doom after trying to find a shark-croc hybrid. Clues in the book lead Dirk to a waterpark, where, after using the pendant on a suspicious indent on the ground, he unlocks a hidden section of the park.
Dirk follows the maze of pipes into the room with Felix the Shark. He attaches a breathing hose to himself and opens the hatch, closing it behind him. There, an abandoned and run-down Felix animatronic chases him menacingly around the tank. Dirk tries to open the hatch but realizes that he made a critical error; the hatch could only be opened from the outside. Dirk is doomed to remain trapped inside of the tank as Felix chases him around.
The Scoop
Mandy is an unpopular student at school. She spends her free time writing fan fiction about the Five Nights at Freddy's games series, as well as participating in the FNAF community on online forums. On a whim, she downloads FNAF3 on her phone and decompiles it, copying how other theorists in the community would find clues in the games. She finds an image file called lookshauntednow.jpg, a colorless photo of an old metal building with a street name attached to it. When she posts the image on her blog, M&M Scoop, no one else can find the image file in the game. She asks her dad about it, and he suggests that it's a reference. She plans to find the actual location in the image to investigate the mystery.
She begins seeing quick flashes of things around her — something red, a blue shoe, and a ghostly boy with brown hair — but they all disappear as soon as she blinks. She has dreams of the ghost boy in different locations she recognizes from the FNAF games, such as Fazbear's Fright, and the boy looks progressively paler and more decayed each time.
Mandy reverse image searches the building and finds out it's located in Peace Valley, Utah. With help from her friend Lindey, she narrows the location down to a building called Old Cinemas. She travels to the town and looks through the town's records, finding out that the building used to be called "Sideshow's Snack Shack" around 17 years ago, but it shut down after 3 years due to a young boy going missing. The boy was suspected to be kidnapped, and the main suspect is dubbed "The Purple Man" after newspapers accidentally printed the report in dark ink.
Mandy and Lindey visit Old Cinemas and talk to a maintenance worker who has worked in the building before Sideshow's Snack Shack closed down. He tells them the story of the missing boy: he and his mother would visit every day, but every time they were about to leave, the boy would hide, and his mom would have to find him. One time, his mother was not able to find him, and he was assumed to be kidnapped. He ends the story by telling them that the boy's name was Stevie Robins. Mandy connects the events to FNAF3 and promises to solve the mystery of the missing boy.
Mandy returns the next day and investigates the building further. She enters the storage room filled with old merchandise from Sideshow's Snack Shack and finds an old bear animatronic, Sideshow, in the corner. As she heads towards the bear, the ghost reappears and surrounds her. The ghost knocks a newspaper clipping about Stevie Robins off a cardboard box, causing Mandy to realize the ghost is actually Stevie Robins. Stevie reappears and climbs up Sideshow and twists the head a little before disappearing. Mandy follows suit and removes the head of the bear, finding the corpse of Stevie, with brown hair and a red shirt.
Once outside, Investigators and police arrive at the scene. The police and the maintenance worker thank Mandy for solving the long unsolved case of Stevie Robins. They determine that Stevie tried to hide inside the suit but accidentally snapped his neck inside. Mandy's mother picks her up and takes her to the airport. Once there, Stevie's mother personally thanks Mandy for finally bringing closure to her.
On the plane, Mandy continuously cries until she finally opens up to her parents about how she is bullied at school and how the death of her little brother Bobby affected her. They agree to spend more time together as a family. At school, she stands up to her bullies, and all the other students applaud her for it. She also makes a new friend.
On her blog, she states that she will not explain what she found out of respect for the families involved. She writes that while she may never understand the full mystery of the building and its connection to FNAF, she is content with that. She ends the post by writing, "The only thing I am certain of is, if the creator wanted us to know, I think he would tell us."
One night, Mandy gets a knock on the door and finds a happy, alive-looking Stevie. He thanks her, then tells Mandy "Bobby says hello." and she smiles, watching him disappear."
You're the Band
Sylvia is worried for her seven-year-old son Timmy after he develops a strong obsession with Freddy's. He claims to have visited the pizzeria and met the animatronic characters, despite the fact that no pizzerias were continued to be run after a "tragic incident". Sylvia admits to his psychologist that she feels that Timmy has become two different people; one is who she always knew, and the other talks about events that he couldn't possibly have witnessed.
Sylvia purchases a Freddy mask from an online seller for Timmy's birthday. The mask arrives in a battered box with a weird smell. At his Freddy's-themed birthday party, Timmy invites two friends to be Bonnie and Chica and wears the mask as Freddy and sings a song.
Later that night, Sylvia hears screams from Timmy's room but finds nothing there. The next day, Timmy talks ominously about children found in Freddy's that were lined up against a wall. He acts unusually by doing things he ordinarily would not, taking liking to things he never did and have large tantrums when he didn't get what he wanted. At home, she finds Timmy talking to a shadow. He also attacks his grandfather after he innocuously holds a knife, saying that he saw the knife and need to protect the "others". He doesn't explain who the "others" are.
At night, Sylvia spots Timmy being lured away by a shadow figure. As she chases him to get him back, a man named Mike stops her. He explains that he is a security guard for the old Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and that he suspects that the mask that Sylvia ordered was the head of the Freddy animatronic that was stolen a few weeks ago. He says that the mask may have harmed Timmy, and that he had already broken into her house to take the mask back.
Sylvia and Mike drive to the old Freddy Fazbear Pizza. They find Timmy on stage next to Bonnie and Chica. Black-and-white striped tentacles shoot from the walls of the pizzeria and begin to strangle Sylvia. Mike quickly puts the mask back on Timmy, causing its eyeholes to glow, before grabbing the mask off Timmy and pulling him off the stage. The Marionette descends from the ceiling towards Timmy, but Mike protects him. The Marionette retreats and lets Sylvia go, as Freddy walks in and puts on the stolen animatronic head. He becomes whole again and takes his place on stage.
The trio leave the pizzeria. As they drive home, Mike explains his theory that something was alive in the Freddy mask, and that it entered Timmy when he put on the mask. He also believes that the shadow figure was trying to take the living thing out of Timmy. Mike makes Sylvia and Timmy promise to keep everything that happened a secret. The next day, Sylvia is pleased to see that Timmy is acting like his usual self, safe and sound.
Characters
Humans
Felix the Shark
- Dirk"s Family
- Dirk
- Dirk's Daughter
- Leo
- Jenny
- Gordon
- Wyatt
- Dawn
- Agnes
- Wendy
- Maude
- Sanders Family
- Aaron Sanders
- Mrs. Sanders
- Lonnie Sanders
- Louisa Sanders
The Scoop
- Mason Family
- Mandy Mason
- Bobby Mason
- Mrs. Mason
- Mr. Mason
- Robins Family
- Stevie Robins
- Mrs. Robins
- March
- Jim
- Lindey
- Teresa
- Melissa Chandler
- Lilly Janson
- William Afton (mentioned)
- Mr. Peterson
You're the Band
- Sylvia's Family
- Sylvia
- Timmy
- Michael Afton/Mike
Animatronics
Classic Animatronics
Toy Animatronic
Others
- Felix the Shark
- Sideshow the Bear
Locations
Felix the Shark
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
- Crawberry Cradle Roadside Inn
The Scoop
- Old Cinemas
- Sideshow's Snack Shack
You're the Band
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
Trivia
General
- On Reddit, Scott Cawthon posted a comment on Reddit, stating that, while a physical version of the book wouldn't have been sold outside the collection, he would have found a way to make fans easily get it without having to buy the whole series again, probably as an eBook.
- The book was originally intended to release on December 7, 2021.
The Scoop
- The story, The Scoop, is a message from Scott himself to the FNaF community, concerning the matter that we're not going to get all our answers, so we need to just accept that and either move on or realize that theorizing won't ever be satisfying and that we shouldn't go looking for real life places and events that may or may not have been used as inspiration, but it came across so poorly that the whole story was scrapped.
- This is so far, The Scoop is the only story which has been confirmed to have been exclusively written by Scott Cawthon, without the help of any other writer.
- The Scoop is the second story to feature FNAF in a meta sense (the FNAF series being a video game series within the story), the first being In the Flesh.
You're the Band
- Despite being a scrapped story, there are connections to other official stories in the series.
- Timmy's description of children's bodies found lined up against a wall at a Freddy's wearing party hats is an exact description of what Oswald saw in Into the Pit. You're the Band says that all Freddy's locations were closed after a "tragic incident", which could be assumed to be describing the murder of the six children.
- Since Into the Pit says that the event occurred in 1985, and You're the Band says that the "tragic incident" occurred thirty years ago, this places the time period of the story in 2015.
- In the final stinger from Pankster, Larson visits many places in a memory sequence that are callbacks to previous stories. For example, he visits a warehouse that is strongly described similarly to the one in Dance with Me. One of the places Larson visits is a child's bedroom with a Freddy's poster, a closet, and an aluminum bat — very similar to Timmy's bedroom.
- Supporting this is the fact that the Puppet, which is the antagonist of You're the Band, had already appeared in the seventh stinger from The Cliffs.
- Timmy's description of children's bodies found lined up against a wall at a Freddy's wearing party hats is an exact description of what Oswald saw in Into the Pit. You're the Band says that all Freddy's locations were closed after a "tragic incident", which could be assumed to be describing the murder of the six children.
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