Hollow Ground, (Paperback)

<p><strong>HOLLOW GROUND</strong></p><p><strong>The rain fed the earth. Now the earth is hungry.</strong></p><p>After weeks of relentless Delta rain, Clara Whitlow's dog vanishes into the flooded soil behind her farmhouse.</p><p>Not taken. <em>Dissolved.</em></p><p>And when the ground finally stops moving, it begins to breathe.</p><p>What rises beneath Gethsemane Parish isn't a predator-it's something worse. A vast neural network woven through root and rot, learning emotion before language, tracking fear like a scent. It doesn't hunt by vibration or movement.</p><p>It hunts by what you feel.</p><p>Sheriff Ruth Garvey thought Clara was grieving. Dr. Miriam Keats thought it was geological. The government knows better-but containment isn't about saving lives. It's about keeping witnesses quiet.</p><p>Because the organism beneath the delta isn't malicious. It's <em>curious.</em> And every time someone screams, every time the soil mimics a child's laugh or whispers a dead man's prayer, it learns a little more about what it means to be afraid.</p><p>The worms are just its fingertips. The thing they're connected to goes deeper than anyone wants to believe.</p><p>Clara becomes the first person it truly notices. The only one who hears it trying to speak. The only barrier between understanding and annihilation.</p><p>But the parish is already hollow. The rain has stopped. And beneath the mud, something ancient is beginning to remember what humans taste like when they're afraid.</p><p><strong>For readers who crave ecological horror that doesn't explain itself, Southern Gothic atmospheres where nature becomes aware, and endings that replace comfort with understanding.</strong></p><p><strong>If you loved</strong> <em>Annihilation's</em> unknowable ecosystems and <em>The Ruins'</em> relentless dread, <strong>Hollow Ground</strong> will burrow under your skin and refuse to let go.</p>

• Hollow Ground, (Paperback)
• Author: R D Parrish
• ISBN: 9798235241244
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-27
• Page Count: 174