A Field of Faceless Gods

A FILIPINO A24-STYLE FOLK HORROR NOVEL

Searching for his missing daughter in a remote Visayan province, a father is hunted by a cult-worshipped entity that is slowly learning how to wear his face.

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Kristoffer Po knows three things: his daughter is missing, his mother is silent, and there's something wrong with the rice field.

The crops have been dead for months when the villagers whisper about an old legend: the Tawo-tawo, the faceless creature that supposedly preys on the farmers. Krist doesn't believe in ghosts. He's an engineer. He trusts what he can measure, what he can see.

But when he searches the woods for answers behind his daughter's disappearance, he finds things that don't add up. At night he knows something ancient hides in the drying mud of the fields.

It has no voice, so it learns yours.

It has no face, so it steals yours.

As the shadow in the yard grows closer, he realizes he's running out of time. It is no longer watching. It is waiting to take his place among a field of faceless gods.