Marrow Deep
An Atmospheric Gothic Horror Novel of a Sealed Room and a Whispering Wood, and the Dead That Won't Stay BuriedBy Edmund P. Underwood
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
Elara Voss came home to bury her mother.
The thing in the cave told her she was too late. "Your mother's not dead," it whispered — not in her ears, but in her shinbones, her knuckles, the hollow of her pelvis. "She's here."
Twelve years away wasn't far enough.
Elara felt it the first time she pressed her palm to the limestone behind the old chapel. A tickling in her marrow. Like ants moving under the skin. She told herself it was nerves. Guilt. The simple horror of coming home. She had read the death certificate herself. Heart failure. Age fifty-three. The body cremated before she even landed.
Then she followed the pulse down into the dark, and found her mother fused to a pillar of stone — bone-white, cocooned in mineral, still wearing the blue dress with the pearl buttons and the lace collar Elara had helped her sew.
"I preserved her," the voice said. "She's part of me now. As you'll be."
It called itself Sellrock. The granite under the schoolhouse. The shale under the church. The sand under her mother's grave. Older than the town, older than the first Voss who stepped off the boat from Hamburg in 1783 and cut his palm on a stone to seal a bargain.
One bloodline to bind it. One bloodline to feed it.
And the binding was breaking. Her mother's death had snapped the chain, and the island wanted a new keeper. It wanted Elara.
She watched the veins in her hands turn black and understood the trap: death wasn't an escape. Death was an expansion. Refuse it, and she would simply become the hungry thing in the rock.
"I'd rather die," she whispered.
"Death isn't an escape," it answered. "Death is an expansion."
Now Elara has to find a third way — before the cold thread unwinding from her marrow finishes its work, and the last of the Voss line surrenders the island to the thing that has been feeding beneath it for two hundred years.
Marrow Deep by Edmund P. Underwood is an atmospheric, slow-dread Gothic horror novel about an ancestral curse, a haunted island, creeping body horror, generational secrets, a blood bargain, and the dead that refuse to stay buried.
Perfect for readers who love folk horror, atmospheric Gothic dread, ancestral curses, slow-burn body horror, and the unsettling worlds of Shirley Jackson, Andrew Michael Hurley, and Stephen King. A chilling standalone horror novel.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
16Chapter 15 - What Otto Hid
2Chapter 1 - The Bone I Came to Bury
17Chapter 16 - The Historian’s Last Gift
3Chapter 2 - The Ferry That Never Leaves
18Chapter 17 - The Powder and the Voice
4Chapter 3 - The House That Screamed
19Chapter 18 - The Monster Inside the Man
5Chapter 4 - Caleb’s Blackout
20Chapter 19 - The Bleeding Hour
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6Chapter 5 - The Sheriff’s Warning
21Chapter 20 - The Third Way Revealed
7Chapter 6 - The Marks on His Skin
22Chapter 21 - The Bone Pact
8Chapter 7 - The Bone Woman’s Riddle
23Chapter 22 - The Weight of the Lock
9Chapter 8 - The Arrest
24Chapter 23 - The New Warden
10Chapter 9 - What the Bones Contained
25Chapter 24 - The Company’s Shadow
11Chapter 10 - The Language of the Marrow
26Chapter 25 - The Eye in the Sky
12Chapter 11 - The Ritual of Three Marks
27Chapter 26 - The Offer We Can’t Refuse
13Chapter 12 - The Father’s Journal
28Chapter 27 - The Last Stand of the Sheriff
14Chapter 13 - The Voice in the Chamber
29Chapter 28 - The Roots of the Marrow
15Chapter 14 - The Midpoint Bargain
30About the Author
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