Nights Of The Scarecrow

Nights of the Scarecrow

Eight college friends. One remote mountain cabin. A road trip that was supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime.

When Ethan, Sienna, Marcus, Maya, Caleb, Riley, Noah, and Ava set out for a weekend at Pinecrest Summit, they expect hiking, laughter, and a break from their ordinary lives. Instead, a fallen tree forces them onto a detour through Black Hollow—a forgotten town that doesn't appear on any map, where the streets are empty, the clocks are stopped, and the motel owner warns them never to go outside after dark.

Because something is waiting in Black Hollow. Something that has been waiting for a very long time.

Every seventy years, seven people disappear from the town. Every seventy years, the scarecrow in the field chooses new victims. And every seventy years, eight strangers arrive to face a choice they don't yet understand. The friends soon discover they are not the first to come to Black Hollow. They are not even the first group of eight. For generations, the town has been feeding on memory, grief, and the desperate human need to hold on to the people we love.

As the scarecrows close in and the church bell begins to ring, Marcus discovers his grandfather was part of the original bargain—and that he himself may be the key to ending a cycle centuries in the making. To survive, the eight friends must uncover the truth about the town, the mountain beneath it, and the ancient entity known only as the Dreamer. But the deeper they go, the more they realize the real enemy isn't the scarecrow.

It's forgetting.

Nights of the Scarecrow is a sweeping horror novel about friendship, memory, and the terrifying cost of holding on. It asks the question at the heart of every loss: What are we willing to become in order to keep the people we love alive? And what happens when the answer is something monstrous?

From the empty streets of Black Hollow to the caverns beneath the mountain, from a motel that remembers its guests to a door that leads to the beginning of everything, eight friends will learn that some stories don't end—they only wait to be remembered again.

The scarecrow is watching. The bell is ringing. And Black Hollow is ready for its next harvest.