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Briar Gap, West Virginia, was already dying before the earth began to shake. The coal jobs left, the young people followed, and all that remained were empty houses, bad memories, and the dark bulk of Kithlow Ridge leaning over the town like a warning. Eben Locke swore he’d never come back. But his kid brother dies in a “work accident” on the ridge, and the official story doesn’t match the tremors in the ground or the stone dust in the coffin. Coming home means facing the town that chewed him up, the mining company that owns what’s left—and something older that’s waking inside the rock.

A town reset to zero. A ledger that records what people try to forget. And a detective who refuses to blink. After the Hollow Creek case reopens old wounds, Detective Mae Calder faces a new pattern: survey pins that move overnight, brass tags stamped 0 where the number 27 used to be, and near-miss “rescues” with no victims—just cut red thread and footprints that stop at the fence. As Founders’ Day approaches, officials promise “normalcy,” but maps quietly shift lot lines by inches and the creek’s old channel begins to wake.

The Tenebrous Archives: The Serpent’s Garden A plant that remembers is a curiosity. A plant that remembers you is a weapon. In a small town still haunted by the legacy of the mysterious Weeping Stone, a new threat has taken root. Dr. Lila Hart, a brilliant botanist, arrives at the reclusive Blackwood estate to investigate a botanical anomaly: a strange, invasive flower that blooms with a terrifying sentience. Its petals contain crystalline structures that don't just mimic memory—they steal it, store it, and transfer it to the unwitting.

ADHD, a Superpower? For Kids and Teens follows Jamie through good days and hard days as they learn what ADHD really is: not a broken brain, but a busy one that needs tools, support, and understanding.

Aetheria — a slow-burn horror saga about memory, place, and a thing that learns when we listen. When amateur explorers awaken a dormant force in the ruined Blackwood Asylum, the building doesn’t stop at haunting: it rewrites reality. From institutional rot to a single, corrupted town and then outward into the world, the Aetheria entity turns landscapes into living nightmares that feed on memory and sanity.

They keep ledgers because memory can be counted. The river keeps ledgers because it prefers the arithmetic of things that are wet.

When ecologist Mara Wren arrives in the timber town of Alder’s Hollow to catalog an old grove, she expects moss and silence. What she finds are eighteen-inch footprints leading away from a butchered deer, a line of ritual cairns hidden beneath moss, and a community that answers every question with a quieter question. The locals call it the Keeper. The old stories call it something older.

The Hollow Mile: A Highway Horror Novel by Tommy Marcum is a tense, time-twisted horror story about a stretch of road that doesn’t just eat cars—it rewrites lives.

Tommis was born a backwoods boy with gasoline on his hands and trouble in his grin. Lila was the girl who collected secrets in notebooks, aching to escape the small-town talk that caged her. Together, they refused the rules of the Southern Bible Belt—refused fear, refused silence, refused to live a life written by someone else.

Jonah thought the town’s worst was gossip and old grudges. He did not expect a thing made at a shuttered 1990s lab — braided wire braided with tissue, warm as a hand — to surface among children’s rituals and teach them a cruel economy of care. The Hollowed Tether is a visceral, atmospheric novel of small-town dread where scientific curiosity becomes a predator and childhood bargains with blood and meaning.

In a fractured world where memory is power and truth is negotiable, a fragile accord emerges—one that could redefine the future of narrative itself. As global institutions scramble to control the past, the Archive stands at the edge of diplomacy, myth, and resistance.

Aetheria — a slow-burn horror saga about memory, place, and a thing that learns when we listen. When amateur explorers awaken a dormant force in the ruined Blackwood Asylum, the building doesn’t stop at haunting: it rewrites reality. From institutional rot to a single, corrupted town and then outward into the world, the Aetheria entity turns landscapes into living nightmares that feed on memory and sanity.

A golden-backed mission, a glittering foundation, a public spectacle that promised to carry a chosen few beyond a dying Earth. What the cameras didn’t show was the cost: an engineered myth, a falsified dataset, a sealed lab log—and something crystalline waiting in the dust of another world. Maya Sarkar buried her child and buried her faith in institutions. Captain Isabel “Iz” Moretti gave her life to command, then came home to a child who should have stayed an absence. A young microbiologist named Yuki learns her single exposure was a planetary vector.

When a student disappears along the banks of Hollow Creek, Detective Mae Calder is reassigned to the small town she swore she’d never return to. The case looks routine—until Mae uncovers a pattern of disappearances spaced twenty-seven years apart, each foreshadowed by whispered sightings of a not-quite-human figure at the waterline. As Founders’ Day looms and the town demands “normalcy,” Mae follows a hard investigative trail—interviews, flood maps, forensics, public records—into secrets the creek has been holding since the mill diverted its flow.

Step inside The Writer Vibe, a slow-burn horror anthology where everyday places twist into uncanny nightmares. Narrated by The Writer—a calm, conversational voice you can’t quite trust—each audiobook in the series drags the ordinary into the eerie, until reality itself feels unstable. Perfect for fans of psychological horror, gothic suspense, supernatural thrillers, and unreliable narrators.

A blistering near-future political thriller of revolt, sacrifice, and the hard work of rebuilding. When federal squads smash into a Kansas farmhouse and a child dies, ordinary families stop being silent. We The People: Rising follows disillusioned veterans, an embattled journalist, a whistleblowing engineer, and thousands of citizens who refuse to accept a manufactured nation of fear. This is a story of uprising, betrayal, and the price of saying “enough.”

A failed horror writer, Marcus Thorne, inherits a "cursed" estate in a forgotten corner of Alabama. Desperate to revive his career, he decides to use the house as inspiration for his next book, a non-fiction-style account that will feel so authentic, listeners won't be able to tell fact from fiction. He believes the house is his salvation.

The Writer Vibe is an original horror anthology series where every book is stitched together by a single, unsettling narrator—The Writer. Conversational, casual, and almost too familiar, The Writer drifts between memory and invention, weaving tales that blur the line between what’s written and what’s lived.

This haunting horror anthology, narrated by The Writer, blurs memory, place, and dread across ordinary settings that twist into something you’ll never leave the same way. Calm, conversational, and not entirely trustworthy, The Writer invites you into stories where every second is an echo, and every echo demands you listen closer.

Hollis Varn returns to Fenwell Hollow expecting paperwork, property, maybe a quiet inheritance. What he steps into is something older: Tallow House, a house that listens. A stitched ledger called the Roll, buried memories that don’t belong wholly to the past, and an orchard that catalogs names like fruit.