When October Begins

By Paul C. Stone
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Length8h 42m

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October begins at midnight in Brimstone Hollow, and Sylvia Marrow is alone in her grandmother's house with every lamp burning. The mantel clock has just finished chiming. The garden lies gray with mist, and at the treeline a light is flickering where she has never once seen a light. By morning the leaves have come down and the road into town is empty. The shop windows are lit, and no one is standing inside them. The hours slip. A jar of honey waits with a label in a stranger's careful hand. The Hollow knows more than it will say. Its oldest families keep their doors shut and their rules unspoken, and the clock in Sylvia's front room has started keeping a time of its own. Something in the valley has been waiting a long while for October, and this year it will not wait quietly.

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Rating★★★★ 4.5 (35)
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GenreHorror, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Get the free story that started it all.
2Chapter 1: The Feather on the Sill
3Chapter 2: The Honey for the Supper
4Chapter 3: The Founders’ Supper Warning
5Chapter 4: The Clock Unwinds
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6Chapter 5: The Burning of the Image
7Chapter 6: The Founders’ Supper Cancelled
8Chapter 7: The Attic’s Binding
9Chapter 8: The Forest in the Glass
10Chapter 9: The Threshold Below
11Chapter 10: The Night of the Fire
12Chapter 11: The Mirror’s Seam
13Chapter 12: The Keeper’s Ultimatum
14Chapter 13: The Keeper’s Reflection
15Chapter 14: The Third Path
16Chapter 15: The Charter’s Margin
17Chapter 16: The Third Path Provision
18Chapter 17: The Keeper’s Memory
19Chapter 18: The Memory Half Given
20Chapter 19: The Final Instruction
21Chapter 20: The Porch Words Spoken
22Chapter 21: The Keeper’s Faltering Pulse
23Chapter 22: Bleeding Stones, Speaking Names
24Chapter 23: The Descent to the Stone
25Chapter 24: The Unbinding at the Altar
26Chapter 25: The Silver Scar
27Chapter 26: The Ninth of October
28Chapter 27: The Ledger of Lost Things
29Chapter 28: The Founders’ Supper
30A Free Story for You
31The Hollow has a song.
32About the Author
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