When the Pines Call: A Dogman Horror Novel

By Edward Kress

The thing in the ditch had hands.When Wade Harker strikes something on a rain-soaked mountain road outside Black Ridge, Pennsylvania, he thinks he has hit an animal. Then it stands on two legs, smiles through a wolf's muzzle, and drags him screaming through his shattered windshield.By morning, Wade's mutilated body is found thirty feet up an oak tree.Disgraced former deputy Harlan Rusk knows no bear, wolf, or man could have done that. When the woods begin calling to him in his dead grandfather's voice, he realizes the old warnings were true: something is hunting Black Ridge from the pines.Wildlife biologist Dr. Sienna Vale comes looking for a rational explanation. Mine maintenance worker Boone Sutter knows the abandoned tunnels beneath the mountain hide more than old equipment and bad air. And Harlan's teenage son, Tate, soon becomes the target of creatures intelligent enough to mimic the voices of the dead, lure victims into the dark, and mark those they mean to keep.As the attacks spread from isolated roads to farms, schools, and the heart of town, the survivors uncover a horror buried beneath Black Ridge for generations. The dogmen are not wandering predators. They are a pack. They have dens below the mountain. They have been fed, protected, and hidden by men who called sacrifice survival.And beneath them all waits something older, larger, and far more dangerous than the pack.To save his son and expose the truth, Harlan must return to the darkness Black Ridge has spent more than a century feeding-before the pines call every remaining voice in town into the woods.When the Pines Call is a savage cryptid-horror novel of blood-soaked survival, buried secrets, monstrous mimicry, and the terrifying things waiting beneath the trees.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H59TBVG6
• ISBN13: 9798181099494
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"