The Hunger of the Hollow
Winter should have been the worst thing in Frost Hollow.
Then the hunger learned how to wear a voice.
In the north woods beyond town, something old and starving begins feeding on more than flesh. It takes shape from grief, whispers through memory, and turns the dead into bait for the living. Elias Blackwood, already marked by the loss of his wife Anna and daughter Clara, finds himself pulled toward a horror that knows exactly which wound to press and when to speak in the wrong voice.
As fear spreads through Frost Hollow, the people around Elias are forced into a brutal struggle against a creature the old stories would call Wendigo, but no story has described well enough. Maggie Two Rivers understands the thing's hunger before most. Nils Jensen tries to keep the town standing while blood loss and grief undo him. Will Carter becomes keeper of the names. Mrs. Bell refuses to let sorrow turn into foolishness. And Reverend Amos Hale learns too late what happens when certainty becomes another mouth for fear.
But killing the creature is not the end.
After the winter burns through the town, the survivors must decide what to do with the truth. Whether to soften it into tale, sharpen it into warning, or keep it plain enough that no future hunger can wear the dead as masks again.
The Hunger of the Hollow is a dark frontier folk horror novel about grief, starvation, memory, and the terrible cost of letting the wrong voice answer when the woods call your name.
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