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The Holler Keeps Its Own: A Novella of Appalachian Folk Horror
Paperback
Series: The Mountain Run Cycle, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eleven years gone from Mountain Run, and Sissy Branham comes back to bury her grandmother's quiet.
The lawyer's letter said unoccupied. The lawyer was wrong. The spring house door is split from the inside. A knot of faded red yarn hangs on the latch where no yarn should be. And at night, from somewhere down in the cold dark where the water comes up through the rocks, a man hums a tune Granny Vesta only ever hummed when she thought no one was listening.
Old Pearl Trivett knows what Sissy is just beginning to understand. The Branham women have been keeping something in this holler since 1862. Vesta tried to break the bargain her great-great-grandmother made in that starving winter - and the holler took her down for trying.
Sissy has seven days to decide. Renew, and stay. Break, and pay. Run, and the road bends three times and brings her home.
A novella of Appalachian folk horror, hereditary debt, and the patience of old things. Book 1 of The Mountain Run Cycle.
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