The Hollow Season
A chilling, atmospheric gothic horror novel about a family curse, a hungry darkness, small-town secrets, blood sacrifice, the dead that won't stay buried, and a sister who refuses to feed the fogBy E. L. Marrow
Length7h 35m
About this audiobook
Every October, the fog comes for the town.
And every October, the town pays it what it asks.
Maggie knows the rules. She has known them since she was a child.
Keep the fire burning. Make the offerings. Do not ask what lives out in the mist.
On a coast where every village from here to Nova Scotia has done this for longer than anyone can remember, the hollow season begins at sundown — and the Reverend says the darkness must be fed.
Maggie wants to run.
Take the skiff, row south along the coast past Portsmouth, get her sister Beatrice and little Thomas clear of this cursed shore before the season takes another soul.
Three days, she pleads. Three days and they would be free of this whole haunted coast forever.
But Beatrice only folds the spare shirts back into the satchel, careful as she has always been, and says the thing Maggie cannot forgive.
"The minister doesn't lie. He interprets."
They will be seen, Beatrice warns. Caleb Marsh will notice the missing skiff. Widow Parsons watches the wharf. In a town like this, everyone notices everything — that is how they have survived this long.
If survival is even what this is.
Then the fog rolls in a full day early — breaking the oldest rule of all.
Eight-year-old Thomas, who has always known when adults are lying, looks up from the too-big hearth fire and says the words that turn Maggie's blood to ice: "Caleb said the fire keeps things out. Things that live in the fog."
Now the season has come for her family.
There is a diary beneath the floorboards. A bone in the marsh. A child's dream that is not a dream.
An empty feast laid out for a hungry dark. And a thing in the waves that wears a familiar face.
The hunger has worn the mask of faith for generations, and the Reverend means to feed it again.
To save her brother, Maggie must dig up everything this town buried — and decide whether some debts are meant to be paid, or finally, fatally refused.
The Hollow Season is a chilling, atmospheric gothic horror novel about a family curse, a hungry darkness, small-town secrets, blood sacrifice, the dead that won't stay buried, and a sister who refuses to feed the fog.
Perfect for readers who love folk horror, New England gothic, Shirley Jackson, slow-burn dread, cursed coastal towns, and stories where faith and monstrosity wear the same face.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Historical Fiction, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Chapter 1 - The Tide That Brings No Salt
4Chapter 2 - The Reverend’s Good Word
5Chapter 3 - The Diary Beneath the Floorboards
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6Chapter 4 - The Offerings of a Fool
7Chapter 5 - The Bone in the Marsh
8Chapter 6 - The Hollow Child’s Dream
9Chapter 7 - The Reckoning of Beatrice
10Chapter 8 - The Mason’s Cage
11Chapter 9 - The Face in the Wave
12Chapter 10 - The Cold Embrace
13Chapter 11 - The Aftermath of the Empty Feast
14Chapter 12 - The Alliance of the Grieving
15Chapter 13 - The Dead Man’s Beacon
16Chapter 14 - The Reverend’s Reckoning
17Chapter 15 - The Choice of Fullness
18Chapter 16 - The Town That Would Not Forget
19Chapter 17 - The Buried Secret
20Chapter 18 - The Brother’s Doubt
21Chapter 19 - The Ritual of the Cord
22Chapter 20 - The Cage of the Self
23Chapter 21 - The Lull Before the Hollow
24Chapter 22 - The Second Anchor
25Chapter 23 - The Keepers of the Chain
26Chapter 24 - The Gathering of the Hollowed
27Chapter 25 - The Hour of Seven Hearts
28Chapter 26 - The Season of Light
29About the Author
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