The Swallowing Field

By The Underteller

When Merrit Kells inherits his estranged uncle's ruined farmhouse, he expects mold, debt, and a handful of secrets. What he finds instead is a jar unearthed in the field behind the house - sealed in wax, humming like a throat. Inside is something that moves when spoken to, and the sound begins to follow him indoors.

The town of Luskvale is quiet but wrong. The locals keep their windows nailed, their mirrors buried, and their dead unspoken. The parish itself feels alive - the walls breathing, the soil tasting of metal. Every dusk, the air thickens as if waiting for a command.

When Merrit meets Tess, a local archivist obsessed with the parish's "Field Days" - a vanished rural ritual - the two uncover a history of offerings, disappearances, and a secret congregation known as *The Garden Mouth*. The deeper they dig, the more the parish responds, reshaping itself in imitation of their fear.

In the end, the field wants only one thing: to remember its children.

*The Swallowing Field* blends body horror, Southern Gothic rot, and psychological collapse into a tale of inheritance and consumption. Told in present tense, it's a fever-dream of mud, glass, and teeth - where every silence hums and every truth costs flesh.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTXLMG9M
• ISBN13: 9798268450613
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"