Length3h 9m
About this audiobook
He drowned.
Eleven-year-old Horacio Matthews remembers the hands around his throat. He remembers the cold lake. He remembers dying.
He does not remember waking beneath a black sea suspended above an impossible city where memories are hunted, grief has weight, and the dead refuse to stay silent.
With only the spirit of his beloved dog, Scratch, curled behind his heart, Horacio must navigate a realm where every step deeper threatens to erase another piece of who he is.
Above the water, his older brother Terrance feels the impossible moment of Horacio's death. As a dormant gift awakens within him, he is drawn toward an ancient family legacy of necromancy, forgotten bloodlines, and secrets powerful enough to challenge the boundary between life and death itself.
One brother is trying to return.
The other is learning how to reach him.
Somewhere between memory and mortality, something has been waiting for them both.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length3 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
3528: TRACKING
2COPYRIGHT
3629: ESCAPE
3A NOTE ON THE CONTINUUM
3730: DEFENSIVE
4FOREWORD
3831: GATE
5ACT ONE: INFANTICIDE
3932: HOMEWARD
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61: DRY
4033: NICHOLAS
72: BALL
4134: HOME
83: LAUGH
42ACT FOUR: BINDINGS
94: THRESHOLD
4335: UNSPOKEN
105: GRIEF
4436: FUNERAL
116: GALLOWS-FISH
4537: WILL
127: NAME
4638: BOBBY
138: MIRROR
4739: HOLIDAYS
149: BOX
4840: DRIVER
1510: ONE-WAY
4941: LESSONS
1611: TRUTH
5042: CATCH
1712: SINKING
5143: VELVET
18ACT TWO: CONTESTATION
5244: BINDING
1913: DOWN
53ACT FIVE: RUN
2014: MARKET
5445: SCREAM
2115: DEEPER
5546: ESCALATION
2216: CATHEDRAL
5647: STOLEN
2317: KEEPER
5748: FLIGHT
2418: CONTRACT
5849: ROBERT
2519: TERMS
5950: ARRIVAL
2620: TRADE
6051: INTENT
2721: AGREEMENT
6152: ITCH
2822: SHORE
6253: SCRATCH
29ACT THREE: RETURN
6354: EPILOGUE
3023: GIFT
64AFTERWORD
3124: MEMORIES
65CONTINUE THE CONTINUUM
3225: TWINS
66ABOUT THE AUTHOR
3326: FULL
67ABOUT NEOCHIC GOTHIC PRESS
3427: FAMILIAR
68THE NEON GOTHIC ARCHIVE
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