The Black Bloom
The Past Always Corrects ItselfBy R.D. Parrish
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
THE BLACK BLOOM
The past always corrects itself.
When Mara Rourke returns to Briar Hollow to assess abandoned buildings, she expects silence. The Appalachian mining town is half-gone, boarded houses, sealed shafts, and a collapse that killed her father twenty years ago.
Town clerk Mae Kessler opens files that rewrite themselves overnight. Diagrams change. Ink lifts off paper and swirls into new shapes. A collapse report appears dated two months before the collapse happened. Acoustics engineer Caleb Harland hears pulses beneath the earth—rhythmic, like breathing. When he touches the stone, it warms under his palm. Like flesh remembering contact. And Mara sees her father descending a staircase in an empty house, flickering like corrupted footage trying to stabilize itself.
The town didn’t just bury its dead. It buried the truth. And something beneath Briar Hollow has been listening ever since, something ancient, and intelligent.
The Black Bloom doesn’t haunt. It corrects.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE BLACK BLOOM
2PROLOGUE — The Correction
3CHAPTER 1 — The Arrival
4CHAPTER 2 — Julian Harland, Acoustics Contractor
5CHAPTER 3 — Town Clerk of Vanishing Documents
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6CHAPTER 4 — Sheriff Maxine Cade’s Tightening Grip
7CHAPTER 5 — Enoch McCreary Hears the Mountain
8CHAPTER 6 — First Memory Bloom
9CHAPTER 7 — Julian Listens Deeper
10CHAPTER 8 — Mae and the Paper That Rewrites Itself
11CHAPTER 9 — Cade’s Fracture
12CHAPTER 10 — The Second Correction Begins
13CHAPTER 11 — The House That Remembers
14CHAPTER 12 — Julian’s Brother Speaks
15CHAPTER 13 — Mae’s Archive Awakens
16CHAPTER 14 — Sheriff Cade’s Crackdown
17CHAPTER 15 — The Tunnels Beneath the Tunnels
18CHAPTER 16 — Tessa’s Breaking Point
19CHAPTER 17 — Mae Becomes the Historian
20CHAPTER 18 — Sheriff Cade at the Sealed Shaft
21CHAPTER 19 — The Night of the Second Bloom
22CHAPTER 20 — Enoch and the Old Voice
23CHAPTER 21 — The Town That Forgets To Lie
24CHAPTER 22 — The Threshold Below
25CHAPTER 23 — Sheriff Cade’s Undoing
26CHAPTER 24 — Descent Toward The Chamber
27CHAPTER 25 — Cade at the Threshold
28CHAPTER 26 — The Depths Where Memory Breathes
29CHAPTER 27 — Vernon’s Last Path
30CHAPTER 28 — The Chamber of Unified Memory
31CHAPTER 29 — The Ask Beneath the Mountain
32CHAPTER 30 — The Gathering of the Living and the Dead
33CHAPTER 31 — The Descent Below Memory
34CHAPTER 32 — The Echo That Walked Before Them
35CHAPTER 33 — The Place Where Memory Has No Witness
36CHAPTER 34 — The Basin That Listens Back
37CHAPTER 35 — The Weight That Followed Them Up
38CHAPTER 36 — The Ridge That Waited to Speak
39CHAPTER 37 — The Alignment
40CHAPTER 38 — The Seal
41CHAPTER 39 — The Weight That Stays With Us
42EPILOGUE — What Remains in the Open
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