A lighthouse keeper on a remote island discovers that the waterline is creeping up the shore every night and never coming down, and that the thing the sea is trying to show him is not water.
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The Hollow Ground
Ongoingby Titan Ma·Self-published·91,000 wordswords
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Tom and Nora inherit a remote farmhouse in the woods, but the house sits on a boundary between worlds. The trees grow inward, the basement floods, and something buried in the ground is slowly waking. A slow-burn supernatural horror about the cost of opening a door that should stay shut.
Table of Contents (80 chapters)
Chapter 1 The House1162wordsChapter 2 The Basement1078wordsChapter 3 The Water1121wordsChapter 4 The Roots1027wordsChapter 5 The Map1073wordsChapter 6 The Sound1057wordsChapter 7 The History1080wordsChapter 8 The Sealing1088wordsChapter 9 The Root1033wordsChapter 10 The Choice1036wordsChapter 11 The Opening1014wordsChapter 12 The Descent1384wordsChapter 13 The Ascent1056wordsChapter 14 The Repair1042wordsChapter 15 The Discovery1095wordsChapter 16 The Message1043wordsChapter 17 The Decision1097wordsChapter 18 The Encounter1104wordsChapter 19 The Understanding1092wordsChapter 20 The Unbinding1125wordsChapter 21 The Bridge1085wordsChapter 22 The Years1128wordsChapter 23 The Death1078wordsChapter 24 The Continuation1056wordsChapter 25 The Museum1247wordsChapter 26 The Descendant1111wordsChapter 27 The Remnant1160wordsChapter 28 The Return1147wordsChapter 29 The Legacy1146wordsChapter 30 The Custodian1023wordsChapter 31 The Visitor1102wordsChapter 32 The Coast Road1576wordsChapter 33 The East1290wordsChapter 34 The Turning1500wordsChapter 35 The Keeping1247wordsChapter 36 The Beneath1463wordsChapter 37 The Growth1005wordsChapter 38 The Silence Below1002wordsChapter 39 The Water Returns999wordsChapter 40 The Evidence1217wordsChapter 41 The Witness1286wordsChapter 42 The Mold1385wordsChapter 43 The Boundary1104wordsChapter 44 The Trees1195wordsChapter 45 The Sound Below1271wordsChapter 46 The Watcher996wordsChapter 47 The Walls1333wordsChapter 48 The Center1211wordsChapter 49 The Memory1105wordsChapter 50 The Arrival1129wordsChapter 51 The Pull1374wordsChapter 52 The Pull II1152wordsChapter 53 The Last Door1100wordsChapter 54 The Shift1029wordsChapter 55 The Ground's Song1038wordsChapter 56 The Roof1150wordsChapter 57 The Night1231wordsChapter 58 The Remembering1096wordsChapter 59 The Surface1103wordsChapter 60 The Watcher II1187wordsChapter 61 The Deep's Breath1039wordsChapter 62 The Root's Gift1022wordsChapter 63 The Reaching1178wordsChapter 64 The Witness II1120wordsChapter 65 The Deep's Return1089wordsChapter 66 The Keeper's Heart1088wordsChapter 67 The Gathering1125wordsChapter 68 The Plan1202wordsChapter 69 The Work1125wordsChapter 70 The Resistance1143wordsChapter 71 The Deep's Return II1095wordsChapter 72 The Face of the Deep1044wordsChapter 73 The Bargain1012wordsChapter 74 The Choice1071wordsChapter 75 The Third Way1067wordsChapter 76 The Builder998wordsChapter 77 The Sealing1036wordsChapter 78 The Cost1180wordsChapter 79 The Return1127wordsChapter 80 The Hollow Ground1312words
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