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The Hollow Beneath
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 9 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Hollow Beneath
A Southern Gothic Psychological Horror Novel
by Philip Stengel
Some towns aren't forgotten-they're erased.
When disgraced investigative journalist Evelyn Carver arrives in the decaying Appalachian town of Hollow's End, she's chasing a ghost: her sister's death, her career's ruin, and the whisper of a story buried too deep to die. But Hollow's End doesn't welcome outsiders-it swallows them. Beneath its sagging porches and looping streets lies a living hunger, a mind that listens, a silence that accuses.
What begins as a search for truth spirals into a hallucinatory descent. Evelyn discovers old tapes, rewritten memories, and a legacy of ritual sacrifice buried in the mine shafts below. The town feeds on guilt, addiction, and grief-and Evelyn, with her fractured mind and haunted past, is the perfect offering.
As the town watches and whispers, Evelyn must navigate distorted reality, confront her family's monstrous legacy, and decipher a prophecy where contradiction is the only escape. Because in Hollow's End, you don't just read the story-the story reads you.
A haunting fusion of House of Leaves, Silent Hill, and The Ritual, The Hollow Beneath is a metafictional survival horror that blurs the line between reader and participant.
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