Dead air – Kobo eBook

The Hollow Below is about Mara, a woman who returns to her late mother’s old house on the hill above the lough after 17 years away.

She only plans to clear it out and sell it, but the house won’t let her.

She finds old tapes her mother left with warnings on them do not play after dark, do not play alone, do not play 3 photos with a young boy’s face cut out of them, salt left on her doorstep by neighbours, and a door under the stairs that shouldn’t exist.

Every night at 3:13 a.m. the house hums. The cellar floods with seawater even though the sea is a mile away. And something walks the shore at low tide and leaves no footprints.

As Mara digs into it, she discovers the town made a dark bargain back in 1974 to stay safe, involving a boy named Thomas who never left and now the house has chosen Mara to be its next keeper.

It’s a folk horror story about grief, mothers and daughters, family secrets, and a haunted house that is hungry.