About this book
Summary
In the quiet Philippine town of Santa Barbara, fear does not arrive screaming. It seeps into the land. When a series of brutal deaths shatters the calm of the rice fields and churchyards, veteran police officer Captain Ramil Guevarra is called home to investigate. What begins as a hunt for a killer quickly descends into something far older and far more dangerous—an ancient presence bound to the soil itself, awakened by decades of neglect and forgetting. As bodies surface and the ground begins to shift, Ramil uncovers a buried history of blood, broken bargains, and a guardian that was never meant to live forever. The deeper he digs, the clearer the truth becomes: the beast stalking Santa Barbara is not just a monster—it is memory made flesh, feeding on fear and the names left unspoken. With the town divided between faith, superstition, and flight, Ramil must confront a question no weapon can answer: How do you destroy what was created to guard the land—and what price must be paid to end it? Rooted in Filipino folk horror and shaped by themes of ancestral memory, land ownership, and collective responsibility, The Beast in Town: The Land Remembers. The Dead Do Not Sleep is a slow-burn, atmospheric novel where terror rises not from the shadows, but from what communities choose to forget. Because some horrors do not want to be worshipped. They want to be remembered. And the land never forgets.Book information
Genre
Horror, Fantasy
Length
1 hr 21 mins
Publish date
Dec 22, 2025
Language
English
About the Author
William Ubagan
Table of Contents
1Preface
7When Names Are Spoken Aloud
2The Smell of Rain and Rust
8Cracks That Do Not Close
3After the Bells Stop
9What the Land Refuses to Bury
4The Old Wounds of the Land
10The Shape of an Ending
5Beneath Stone and Water
11What Remains When the Night Is Gone
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