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Calcified Veins
Paperback
Publisher: Antillas Publishing House
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some stains never wash out. Some secrets are buried in bone.
Rural Nebraska, 1998. The Hollow Creek Rendering Plant sits rotting in the expansive silence of the cornfields-a rusted monument to industrial slaughter, scheduled for demolition. For Jarek Halloway and his specialized cleanup crew, it's supposed to be one last dirty job: drain the basement vats, seal the pipes, and walk away with a paycheck.
But the sludge at the bottom of the tanks isn't normal waste. It is a silvery, viscous legacy of a decades-old cover-up-a chemical catalyst that shouldn't exist.
When a containment seal fails, the facility goes into lockdown, trapping the crew in the dark with the leak. They quickly discover that this substance doesn't just kill; it changes. Contact with the fluid triggers a terrifying, rapid calcification of human tissue. Muscles turn to rock, joints fuse instantly, and the body becomes a prison of its own making.
As his team begins to stiffen and die in agonizing silence, Jarek uncovers the plant's true purpose. There is no rescue coming. The corporate fixers outside aren't there to save them-they are there to pour the concrete.
In a claustrophobic race against his own hardening veins, Jarek must find a way out before he becomes just another fossil in the foundation.
Visceral, claustrophobic, and relentlessly pacing, Calcified Veins is a tour-de-force of body horror that questions the price of silence.
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