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By John Kuykendall

Some towns fear death. Hollow’s End made a bargain with it.

When investigative journalist Evelyn Thorne receives a desperate letter from her aging grandmother, she returns to the isolated Appalachian town of Hollow’s End for the first time in more than a decade. What she expects to find is a quiet community struggling with age, loss, and fading traditions.

What she finds instead is something far more terrifying.

The town is unnaturally perfect. Streets are immaculate. Homes appear frozen in time. Smiles seem rehearsed. Beneath the polished surface lies a growing darkness that no one wants to discuss. Residents are forgetting important pieces of their lives. Memories are vanishing. People are changing. And some are dying under horrifying circumstances, their faces locked in expressions of unimaginable terror.

As Evelyn investigates a series of mysterious deaths, she uncovers evidence of an ancient pact hidden within her own family history. Deep in the surrounding wilderness stands the Eldest Oak, a legendary tree tied to a force older than the town itself—a sleeping entity whose hunger has shaped generations of lives in Hollow’s End. For centuries, the town has survived through a fragile bargain. But now that balance is collapsing.

Guided by forgotten journals, cryptic symbols, local folklore, and disturbing family secrets, Evelyn must unravel the truth before the darkness consumes everything she loves. But every answer comes with a terrible price, and every step closer to the truth draws the attention of an ancient power that has waited patiently for generations.

As the Blood Moon approaches and the town's long-buried secrets begin to surface, Evelyn discovers that she is not merely investigating the mystery—she is part of it. And the entity beneath Hollow’s End has already begun preparing for its final collection.

Blending folk horror, cosmic dread, supernatural suspense, psychological terror, and Appalachian folklore, Death Is Coming is a chilling descent into a world where memory, identity, and life itself are currency in a bargain with the unknown.

The town is forgetting.
The shadows are waking.
And Death is Coming.