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By Jane Schoenbrun A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. Public Access Afterworld is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma One of Publisher Weekly ’s Ten Best Books of the Year “Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . Louis Post Dispatch, Lit Hub , Vulture, AV Club, The Chicago Review of Books, The Bookseller , Reactor, Electric Lit, Book Riot, Crime Reads, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews , Gizmodo, Debutiful, and Write Through the Night Find the receiver. Make it real. At 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger. On June 12, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts…