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The Black Hollow Slayings: The Autumn of Bones
An Allhallows Horror Franchise - Book One
Every town has an autumn tradition. In Black Hollow, the tradition is survival.
On Halloween night in 1995, five teenagers sneaked past the rusted gates of the forbidden Sterling Orchard for a night of illicit celebration. Only two made it out alive. The others were found butchered, their bodies strung up like scarecrows, carved open by an antique corn-hook sickle. To protect high-standing families and cover up decades of land theft, broken vows, and bastard bloodlines, the town sealed the records, buried the bodies, and swore to forget.
Thirty years later, the dead leaves are falling again-and the silence is broken.
As October descends on the mist-drenched valley, high school senior Samantha Vance and her childhood friend Leo Cole begin receiving anonymous landline calls broadcasting distorted audio from the 1995 police dispatch tapes. Then, the bodies start piling up. A masked figure in a charred, twine-stitched burlap sack stalks the town, turning beloved autumn traditions into scenes of visceral carnage. From blood-soaked hayrides and locked cider presses to a desperate, claustrophobic chase through a ten-acre corn maze, the Burlap Carver is executing the descendants of Black Hollow one by one.
Every victim is a calculated sacrifice, and every clue points back to the secret pact made thirty years ago. As paranoia turns friends into suspects and former lovers into targets, Samantha and Leo discover a terrifying truth: they were never meant to escape the harvest. They were chosen to endure it.
In Black Hollow, the sins of the parents always come due-and the Carver won't stop until the debt is paid in bone.