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The Devil's Engine: The Blacktop Hauntings - Book One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some cars don't just drive. They remember.
When Rob discovers a battered old Ford coupe hidden outside Abilene, Texas, he sees something worth saving-a forgotten machine with a strange skull mounted above its engine and nearly a century of history buried beneath its rust.
He has no idea that the car has been waiting for him.
The nightmare began in 1934, when Amos Bell vanished after discovering something beneath the West Texas earth-something connected to a mysterious black stone, a hidden road, and a secret that should have remained buried.
Now the past is awakening.
At exactly 2:17 a.m., Rob's car starts by itself. Three knocks come from beneath the floor. A ghostly woman appears on empty Abilene streets. Old photographs begin changing. And when Rob discovers his own face in a picture taken nearly a century before he was born, he realizes the car isn't simply haunted.
It may be a lock.
As Rob searches for the truth, reality begins to fracture. He loses hours he cannot remember. The dead call his name. A grave beneath a twisted mesquite tree leads somewhere impossible-and beneath the familiar roads of Abilene lies another road that was never meant to be traveled.
But the deeper Rob digs, the more dangerous the question becomes:
What if the thing trapped inside the car isn't trying to get in?
What if it's trying to get out?
The Devil's Engine is a dark psychological thriller blending supernatural horror, Texas folk horror, mystery, ghosts, buried secrets, and small-town legend into the first chilling installment of The Blacktop Hauntings.
The road has opened.
And Abilene is only the beginning.
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