About this audiobook

A baby is born without crying. The doctors can't explain why. As Evelyn Hart cradles her impossible daughter Nunnally, a frequency begins broadcasting from the child's body — 18.3 hertz, the pulse of something that shouldn't exist. In the Virginia woods, scientists at OWOW have been studying what they call the compound: a biological vector that rewrites tissue, language, grief itself. They didn't make it. They found it. And now it has a host. Five years later, Elara Voss carries the same frequency in her scars. The boy is changing. The mothers are choosing. And in the silence between sound and meaning, something patient is waking up. Book One of GODS OF THE NEW AGE — a literary horror cycle for readers of Adam Nevill, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Junji Ito.

Audiobook details

GenreHorror, Science Fiction

Length10 hrs 33 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 10, 2026

LanguageEnglish

About the author

Peter Neal

Peter Neal writes literary horror from the Virginia woods, where silence is a presence and the space between sound and meaning is where his stories live. Womb of Shadows is Book One of the Gods of the New Age series — a cycle exploring what happens when biology, language, and grief become indistinguishable. Book Two, The Frequency, continues the story. When he's not writing, he's listening for what comes next.View all by Peter Neal