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Publisher: R.D. Parrish
Published: May 27 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HOLLOW GROUND
The rain fed the earth. Now the earth is hungry.
After weeks of relentless Delta rain, Clara Whitlow's dog vanishes into the flooded soil behind her farmhouse.
Not taken. Dissolved.
And when the ground finally stops moving, it begins to breathe.
What rises beneath Gethsemane Parish isn't a predator-it's something worse. A vast neural network woven through root and rot, learning emotion before language, tracking fear like a scent. It doesn't hunt by vibration or movement.
It hunts by what you feel.
Sheriff Ruth Garvey thought Clara was grieving. Dr. Miriam Keats thought it was geological. The government knows better-but containment isn't about saving lives. It's about keeping witnesses quiet.
Because the organism beneath the delta isn't malicious. It's curious. And every time someone screams, every time the soil mimics a child's laugh or whispers a dead man's prayer, it learns a little more about what it means to be afraid.
The worms are just its fingertips. The thing they're connected to goes deeper than anyone wants to believe.
Clara becomes the first person it truly notices. The only one who hears it trying to speak. The only barrier between understanding and annihilation.
But the parish is already hollow. The rain has stopped. And beneath the mud, something ancient is beginning to remember what humans taste like when they're afraid.
For readers who crave ecological horror that doesn't explain itself, Southern Gothic atmospheres where nature becomes aware, and endings that replace comfort with understanding.
If you loved Annihilation's unknowable ecosystems and The Ruins' relentless dread, Hollow Ground will burrow under your skin and refuse to let go.
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