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The Hollow Season
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Steel City Press
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
.After losing her career, her marriage, and the carefully ordered life she once trusted, psychologist Miriam Voss rents an old house on Vellum Street in Briar Falls, Ohio, hoping for silence, distance, and a chance to disappear into something manageable. Instead, the house begins to notice her.
At first, the disturbances are small enough to explain away. Tapping in the walls at impossible hours. A second bedroom that feels wrong the moment she stands in its doorway. Strange marks hidden beneath plaster. A photograph concealed inside the wall showing a woman in that same room decades earlier, hands pressed against the wall as if listening for something on the other side. Miriam has spent her professional life studying dissociation, trauma, and the ways the mind protects itself from what it cannot survive. She knows every clinical explanation. She knows how to name fear, compartmentalize memory, and diagnose delusion. But the deeper she settles into the house, the less those explanations hold.
What makes the horror unbearable is that the house may not be new to her at all. Before she ever moved to Vellum Street, one of her former patients described that exact house during therapy-down to its walls, its atmosphere, and the presence inside it. Now Miriam is trapped in the same pattern, losing time, waking in places she does not remember going, and finding notes in her own handwriting that she cannot remember writing. As hidden histories emerge, so does the name Eleanor Voss, a woman tied to the house in 1963 whose breakdown may not have been a breakdown at all.
As grief, guilt, memory, and the architecture of the house begin to blur together, Miriam is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: this is not simply a haunted house, and it is not simply a mind coming apart. It is a conversation. The house is speaking in taps, temperature, scent, silence, and absence. And somewhere inside its walls is a presence that has been waiting a very long time for someone who can finally hear it.
The Hollow Season is a slow-burn literary horror novel steeped in dread, grief, psychological collapse, and supernatural unease. Haunting, intimate, and deeply unsettling, it is a story about what happens when the mind's defenses fail-and something ancient, patient, and deeply personal is waiting on the other side.
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