COMING SEPTEMBER 2026
The night shift at the Holloway was supposed to be quiet. When grad student Ethan Ray clocks in as night auditor at the aging Holloway Mountain Resort, he expects paperwork, silence, and a paycheck. Instead, reddish-brown lights bleed across the Appalachian sky. Hard winds whip through the trees without making a sound, and mysterious owl gargoyles come to life.
At 3 a.m. every clock stops. Trapped inside with his co-workers, Kal and Teresa. Ethan realizes the hotel isn't just old; it's a boundary. Something ancient has been waiting and is now awake. To escape, they must uncover the Holloway's secrets, even as unexpected love blossoms between Ethan and Teresa. The problem is, the visions haunting each of them carry the same warning: someone in the hotel cannot be trusted.
Gothic romance meets Appalachian folk horror, where the mountains are watching and the dark leaves marks.
HOLLOW FOLK
Appalachian Gothic
Horror Romance
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Delilah Dawson
Bestselling author of Monstera
A dreamy, disturbing, demonic descent into the magic and tragic history of Appalachia.
Ellery Adams
Author of Invasive Species
It’s official. 3 a.m. is the new witching hour and Andrew K. Clark is the master of Appalachian folk horror. Strange and unsettling, while also quietly beautiful, Clark’s Hollow Folk is an eerie mash-up of botanical, religious, and gothic horror. This book will haunt you long after its final sentence.
Emily Carpenter
Author of Gothictown
Welcome to the terrifying and satisfyingly sick Hotel Holloway, tucked away in a desolate pocket of Appalachia, where you're trapped with three young employees, desperate to escape or never leave, depending on the hour. Trust me when I say, this place makes the Hotel California look like Candyland.
Erika T. Wurth
Author of White Horse and The Haunting of Room 904
You’re in for a wild ride when it comes to Clark’s Hollow Folk, as within these pages you’ll encounter strange, supernatural creatures and a hotel out of time — but this is also very much a wild, surrealistic love story.
Paulette Kennedy
Bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs, Davenport
Hollow Folk will take you by surprise as Clark subverts the classic haunted hotel novel and creates something unique and beautifully strange--a love story honed in a surreal crucible of frozen time, marked by old sins the land remembers, and a reckoning that demands atonement. Bold, weird, and moving, this Kafka-esque tale is unnerving and entertaining in equal measure.