Appalachia Stories

"They tell you never to whistle in the Appalachian Mountains. Now I know why." When a sudden plane crash strands Jack, Veronica, and Vanessa in the heart of the most ominous woods, survival is their only goal. But the deep, atmospheric silence of the forest is a lie. Hidden within the shadows is a predator: The Crawler. As the sun dips below the ridge, the group discovers they aren't just lost they're being hunted. One of them has already become prey, and for the others, the psychological dread is only just beginning. In a place where the trees have ears and the darkness has teeth, the real horror isn't just surviving the woods... it's surviving what's inside them. Can they find a way out before the Crawler finishes the job? New chapters every wednesday!!

Let's say you're a criminology student who lives in the Midwest. Out of curiosity you try to get more information about your friends death. You accidentally end up falling into a rabbit hole and start your own investigation. Trying to solve this mystery you find out how much deeper this mess actually goes. So you just try to stop, multiple times but you still keep getting dragged in. Getting stalked and targeted by 4 murderers wasn't really your goal but oh well! Will you survive after finding out about the paranormal part of this situation or not? Will you accept the help from the "red frowny faced mask fucker" or not? Find out and read! (Slow burn! Self insert! Neutral-masc reader! No smut!) (don't recommend reading this under 16 years of age) (Also! Ik Hoodie & Masky are from marble hornets, I just rly like the mh x crp crossover. I also don't claim the other crp/mh character unless I say so & ticci Toby was created by kastoway.)

Hollis is committed to the shadowed halls of the Marrowbend Institute. But he quickly realizes it's more than just a cage. The Boonies, a cult of Cora Boone's followers, operate within the walls of the teenage asylum. Ready and willing to perform tasks set before them by Cora herself, even if it means great personal harm. Her three-year confinement left a dark legacy within these walls, forcing Hollis to confront a version of her he never knew existed, and allowing him to see the power she truly holds over others. He must form alliances with other patients to survive, while combating new and dangerous rivalries. On the outside, Cora's relentless pursuit to expose the police cover-up regarding her parents' deaths has earned her a formidable new enemy in Officer Bradwell. With the law weaponized against her, Cora fights to make the truth known before the town buries her along with its secrets. Unfortunately for Cora, the law and the Headmaster of Marrowbend, Abel Trenner, push back, threatening to make Hollis disappear forever.

Appalachian river baptisms were a fine thing in the summer.

A story of a man, beaten and chained, and his journey throughout the world alongside his Challenger buddies

In a coal town haunted by rolling blackouts, Abner Hensley knows better than to miss Tamsin "Sunstep" Crowder. She was once his closest friend, the girl who made every broken street and dim porch light feel a little less lonely. Then high school changed everything. Popularity found Sunstep, and she took it, leaving Abner behind with only memories of the girl she used to be. Now, senior year is almost over, and the distance between them feels impossible to cross. Apologizing isn't easy, and the real reason Sunstep walked away is tangled in feelings she has never been brave enough to name. Abner wants to hate her, but every blackout, passing glance, and old memory pulls him back toward the girl who hurt him most. In a town where nothing seems to change, Abner and Sunstep may still have one chance to become something new. After all, some sparks only return when two people are willing to step into the dark together.

After three years away, eighteen-year-old senior Cora Boone is finally free and returning to her hometown of Stilllight, deep in Southern Appalachia. Her record runs a mile long, stacked with detentions, suspensions, arrests, and every bad decision she could make before she was incarcerated. But in all that chaos, she left behind the one boy who understood her. While Cora was locked away in the Marrowbend Institute, fellow senior Hollis Greer was quietly diagnosed with a rare seizure disorder. Hollis only told those he needed to. He learned to hide it, paying close attention to his body and keeping a careful hold on what no one else was meant to see. Nothing threatens that careful balance like Cora Boone walking back into Stilllight. When Hollis's iron grip on his own body breaks, the violent fallout threatens to lock him inside the very nightmare Cora just escaped.

"sorry for leaving that mark on your ankle... I like to play with my food" a young innocent girl living all alone in her one bedroom apartment in Pennsylvania near the Appalachian mountains runs into a bit of trouble with her hot demon neighbor

In the hills of Kentucky, a young city woman travels to the town called Norbury to write the next Great American Novel. There, she finds streams streaked with coal and hills damaged by machines, but she also finds a peculiar family settled inside a house full of mysterious items and past relics of what happened to this once great town. The Norbury family consists of 6 members and they have a motto about their town. "It's like we are captains of a vast ship called, "Norbury." We won't be leavin' our town. Our family built it and we'll be destroyed with it. We aren't leaving. Not even if it kills us." Credit for the beautiful cover goes to @leichter

It's the era of the New Deal, and in the mountains of Tennessee, 19 year old Nathaniel Whitcombe is about to be drawn into a world beyond the borders of sanity.

Two paranormal investigators, Luther Milton and Ellie Barretta, are on their last lives. Their show will be cut off in a week if they don't get something good to send back to their manager. Both are desperate to save their careers (and their relationship), but this spot looks promising. Their mission, investigate an isolated spot deep in the Appalachian Mountains that is avoided by the locals at all costs. All that Luther and Ellie know is that people have been going missing in a hundred mile radius of the spot, but that isn't the curious bit. The curious bit is that, while the victims are never found per se, there are sightings of the missing people moving towards the spot, although the sightings are never confirmed. Will this urban legend be enough to save Luther and Ellie from the chopping block? Read on to find out.

This is the final story in the first set of books from this universe. The next set will be about the younger members. Ray Carter keeps a promise he made to himself a long time ago. His promise saved two lives

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Nestled in the eastern Kentucky foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Baker County doesn't see much in the way of murder. But when Deputy Sheriff Nathan Lincoln is the first responder to the murder of a small boy, his own childhood ghosts come back to haunt him. While trying to put away the father for the murder of the child, the sudden reappearance of his own father seeking forgiveness for past sins just might tear asunder everything Lincoln holds dear: the case, his career, and even his engagement.

It doesn't take much for mass hysteria to take over a small town when reports of witchcraft begin pouring into the town hall.

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No matter how happy you are, eventually, the smile in the mirror will fade until even the memory of it is gone, then all you're left with is the reflection of reality. The question isn't if you have ever wanted to die, but rather why didn't you? Were you short of bullets, out of sharp knives, or perhaps you didn't have enough pills? More likely you're still alive because you didn't have enough courage, because it takes a tremendous amount to end your story. This is a story of courage, a story where a man seeks and finds the most beautiful place to die.

When an Appalachian creature is forced into a 'normal' Mortal life he falls deeply in love with another mortal disguised cryptid. Main Tw's; Violence, death, and a bunch of cursing Other Tws will be in each chapter

God is the voice of love and the arm of the death. Who will people follow? Who will be condemned? Who will be saved? Jude must answer all these questions before someone answers for him.