The Woods Know Your Name: A British Folk Horror Novel

By: Ashcombe, Ellis

British folk horror meets a supernatural mystery in the rain-dark woods of northern England - where the voice calling your name may belong to someone standing right beside you.Seventeen years ago, Daniel Reed's brother vanished in Bellwether Woods. Now another man is missing. His wife escaped the forest alive. She says she heard her husband calling to her from among the trees while he was still at home. Hours later, when he came to find her, he heard her voice from the darkness - and followed it in. He never came back. Daniel is a journalist. He does not believe in curses, monsters or stories that become more frightening every time they are retold. So when he returns to Bellwether, he does what he knows how to do: interviews witnesses, checks old records, listens to forgotten recordings and separates what people remember from what they were later told. But the accounts keep repeating the same impossible details. A child follows her father's voice towards an empty bank. A work crew hears one of their own men speaking from two places at once. A couple sheltering from the rain hear familiar voices outside a locked building. A search volunteer walks towards a friend who is already somewhere else. And again and again, people disappear while searching for someone they know.The woods do not need to know who you are. They only need someone else to tell them.As Daniel reconstructs decades of unexplained disappearances, a pattern begins to emerge - not from folklore or superstition, but from ordinary people describing the moments when something familiar became wrong. The more he learns, the closer the investigation comes to the night his own brother vanished. And to the possibility that Daniel has already heard the thing in the woods before. Atmospheric, unsettling and grounded in witness testimony, fractured memory and the practical realities of a search for the missing, The Woods Know Your Name is a slow-burning British folk horror novel about grief, trust and the terrifying distance between recognising a voice and knowing who is speaking.If someone you loved called your name from the trees, how long would you wait before answering?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HL3Z8BDF
• ISBN13: 9798177401034
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"