Blood Rain
The Chatham County Horror of 1884By R.D. Parrish
Length8h 7m
About this audiobook
On the morning of February 25, 1884, a strip of Chatham County, North Carolina, woke to red on the ground. Flesh and blood had fallen out of a clear sky onto a farm wife’s yard. The newspapers laughed. The preachers prayed.
Dr. Edwin Latham has steady hands and a habit of looking closer than he should. He takes a scrap of the stuff to his microscope and finds it won’t say what he needs it to say. Old Reverend Amos Whitaker knows why, and he isn’t ready to tell him.
Then the dogs quit barking. A peddler’s mule stands loose in the road with the pack still on its back. Schoolteacher Anna Bellamy counts her pupils at every noon recess, and one day the count comes up short.
BLOOD RAIN is Appalachian Gothic horror, a fictionalized version of a true story, set in the real North Carolina hills. The sheriff is honest and the doctor is rational. The sky is not as empty as it looks.
From the author of the Darkwood Legacy Series, The Field, Silence and The Pale Quiet of Cedar Creek.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length8 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author's Note
3Prologue: Olympia Springs
4Chapter 1: Ordinary Business
5Chapter 2: Red Ground
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6Chapter 3: What Amos Doesn't Say
7Chapter 4: A Small, Altered Corpuscle
8Chapter 5: Gossip Is a Kind of Weather
9Chapter 6: Hamilton's Line
10Chapter 7: A Man Expected Home
11Chapter 8: Say It Out Loud
12Chapter 9: Thirty-Four Years
13Chapter 10: Sampson County, 1850
14Chapter 11: Beside His Own Scrap
15Chapter 12: Dogs Won't Cross the Pines
16Chapter 13: Wet Paper Over a Lamp
17Chapter 14: Struggle and No Trail
18Chapter 15: The Shelf
19Chapter 16: Where the Text Stops
20Chapter 17: What the Drawings Allow
21Chapter 18: Gates Still Latched
22Chapter 19: A Smaller Fall
23Chapter 20: A Pastor's Questions
24Chapter 21: Dusk
25Chapter 22: A Lamp in the Harwood Kitchen
26Chapter 23: The Longest Night
27Chapter 24: Lamplight
28Chapter 25: Slips of Paper
29Chapter 26: A Calm You Could Almost Believe
30Chapter 27: A Good Sunday
31Chapter 28: The Second Scream
32Chapter 29: No Category for It
33Chapter 30: Counting Names
34Chapter 31: Routes and Return Times
35Chapter 32: An Animal's Cry
36Chapter 33: What the Sheriff Said
37Chapter 34: Four Kinds of Knowing
38Chapter 35: The Roofline
39Chapter 36: No One Is Bait
40Chapter 37: Open Ground and Timber
41Chapter 38: What an 1884 County Has Lying Around
42Chapter 39: The Night Before
43Chapter 40: The Calf
44Chapter 41: Nothing Goes as Planned
45Chapter 42: Fire
46Chapter 43: What the Fire Left
47Chapter 44: Iron and Chain
48Chapter 45: Quiet Nights
49Epilogue: The Box
50Also by R.D. Parrish
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