When Daniel Mercer returns to his Tennessee hometown after his mother's death, he finds an old photograph, notebooks filled with names, and a radio that speaks with her voice-even when it has no batteries.
His mother spent decades trying to remember people who vanished from Bellwether Hollow before the valley was flooded. Now Daniel meets neighbors who recall those people one moment and deny they existed the next. The deeper he searches, the more often voices call from the reservoir in the voices of those he loves.
At the center of his mother's records is Nell: a girl photographed across decades who never seems to grow older. Daniel knew her as a child, though he cannot remember her face. To find out what happened to her, he must follow the names his mother left behind-while resisting the voices that want him to come down to the water.
The Names Beneath the Mountain is an Appalachian horror novel about family, grief, and the people who refuse to be forgotten.