The Hollows
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
**FINALIST for BFS Award for Best Horror Novel, 2023**
Folk horror meets ancient gods in a remote snowbound Peak District town where several murders take place…
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In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death.
But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die. Stranger still, an odd mark has been drawn onto a stone beside his body.
The next victims are two families on the outskirts of town. As the storm rises and the body count grows, Ellie realises she has a terrifying problem on her hands: someone – or some thing – is killing indiscriminately, attacking in the darkness and using the storm for cover.
The killer is circling ever closer to the village. The storm's getting worse... and the power's just gone out.
File Under: Folk Horror [ Small Town | Big Terror | Long Night | A Few Good Women ]
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Church (Rain Boys) stages humanity's stand against ancient deities in this tension-filled folk horror outing. When Constable Ellie Cheetham of the remote Peak District village of Barsall finds the body of Tony Harper frozen to death, her intuition leads her to suspect foul play, a suspicion compounded by a mysterious symbol at the crime scene. Liz Harper, the matriarch of a family known as much for troublemaking as for their hatred of law enforcement, further confirms Ellie's misgivings by appearing to know more than she's telling. Indeed, monsters are emerging from the darkness, and as the Harper family prepares to outlast them, Liz's daughter, Jess, flees home with her infant son and the family Bible, turning to Ellie for protection. But Liz needs that Bible to keep the monsters at bay, and Jess's betrayal leaves her hungry for revenge. Meanwhile, Ellie must rally Barsall's other residents to find a way to defeat the monsters before everyone ends up dead. Though the pace sometimes lags, Ellie proves a heroine worth rooting for and the Harper clan make for ruthless and formidable antagonists. This claustrophobic outing is sure to resonate with horror readers.
