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Publisher: Antillas Publishing House
Published: Jan 14 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The hunger starts in the teeth. It ends in the bone.
In the drought-choked town of Oakhaven, the earth has finally broken. A violent earthquake has exposed a vein of oily, jet-black silt from the planet's deepest crust. It isn't alive, and it isn't sentient-but it is addictive.
Arthur, a soil scientist sent to investigate the failing crops, finds a community gripped by a lethal craving. The residents aren't just starving; they are compulsively consuming the black earth. As the silt enters their systems, it triggers a terrifying mineralization.
Arthur watches in horror as the town's inhabitants turn into living statues. Veins harden into brittle stone, lungs fill with crystalline shards, and every breath becomes a grinding agony of grit and mud. In Oakhaven, the land doesn't want your soul-it just wants to turn your body into part of the geology.
A bone-dry, visceral descent into body horror. A story about the things we consume, and the heavy price of an unstoppable hunger.
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