Taxidermy That Isn't Dead
Paperback
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Briar Hollow's historic courthouse-turned-museum, the exhibits are meant to preserve the past - not breathe.
When Rowan Hale and Maeve Corbin discover that a fake taxidermy mount inhales only after the lights go out, they assume it's mechanical malfunction or mass hysteria. But when they cut open a hidden seam, they uncover layered living tissue stitched around a black root burrowed into the building's foundation. The museum isn't displaying artifacts. It's containing returns - fragments pulled from somewhere beyond the town's understanding.
Clay, the museum's curator, confesses he hid what he couldn't face. He mounted the impossible, dressed it in folklore, and called it harmless. But the presence behind the exhibits - something ancient, patient, and perceptive - was never trapped. It was testing.
As reflections begin to move out of sync and voices layer through familiar mouths, Rowan and Maeve must decide whether mercy is freedom or invitation. When they sever the root, the mount collapses into ash - leaving behind a single antler-ring-shaped bone and a new rule: the threat no longer needs to be buried to exist.
In Briar Hollow, nothing is truly preserved. Some things are curated. And some are watching.
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