The Listening Dark
Paperback
Series: The Quiet Hunger, Book 2
HorrorMystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Silas Black
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
SOMETHING IS LISTENING. IT KNOWS YOUR NAME.
When the dead begin whispering through static, the world doesn't end.
It listens.
Across America, voices call from the darkness-loved ones, friends, children, speaking with impossible familiarity through radios, walls, and the wind itself. At first, people believe the voices are grief. Then they realize something far more terrifying.
Those who answer disappear.
As entire cities fall silent and the infected gather into vast, coordinated Choirs marching toward an ancient presence beneath the earth, former Army signals intelligence specialist Elias Vane joins a handful of survivors fighting to stay human. Alongside Mara and a mysterious young girl named Lucy, he uncovers a truth older than civilization itself.
This is not an invasion.
It is an awakening.
Beneath humanity sleeps an immense consciousness that has listened to our suffering for countless ages. Now it offers a future without pain, fear, loneliness... or individuality.
As civilization collapses and the earth itself begins to breathe, Elias must decide whether humanity's greatest enemy is the darkness below-or the irresistible promise of becoming part of it forever.
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