The Hollow Mothers (PRESCRIBING HORROR)

By Alex Mendes

SOME HUNGERS CANNOT BE STARVED OUT.
At the northern edge of Norway, where the sun vanishes for two months and the sea breathes against the pilings all night, a lone farm stands apart from the fishing village below. A sixteen-year-old girl lives there with her mother, a thin, grey, gentle woman who scrubs every surface each night, buries things under the floorboards, and files her teeth in the dark.
The girl has never been ill. She has never been afraid. The farm dog will not cross the doorstep. The sheep go silent when she passes. She has always thought of it as a kind of peace.
Then a neighbor's flock is found lying in a perfect ring in the frost, faces frozen in silent screams. The village begins to whisper old names for old things. A lamp is lit in every window of a house at the edge of the heath. And in the long polar night, the girl starts to notice what her mother has spent sixteen years trying to keep her from seeing.
Her mother knows something. The old women know something. And the one person who has never asked what is wrong with the girl is the one who loves her most.
THE HOLLOW MOTHERS is a slow-burn, atmospheric novel of folk horror and family secrets, set among fish racks, lamp oil, and lantern-lit funerals in the far north, in a time before telephones and electric light. Told in the intimate, unsettling present tense of a girl discovering herself one dark chapter at a time, it is a story about inheritance, appetite, and how far a mother's love will go.
Perfect for readers of gothic horror, Nordic folklore, and dark family dramas, and for anyone who has ever wondered what a lullaby might be hiding.
Do not read it with the lights off.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQ75SPJY
• ISBN13: 9798167527164
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"