Episode 4 of Season 2 of Tales from The Hollow

Frank Harmon has been telling himself he needs more time. He doesn't have it.

Four years since Michael Anderson stood in the lodge at Ironwood. Four years and one month, if anyone were counting. He has not been counting. He has been building a life instead — a factory job, crew lead since January, a girl named Quinn who sits in the back pew at First Methodist, a family on Walnut Street that doesn't ask questions he isn't ready to answer.

The phone rings on a Thursday afternoon.

"I need you to come out to Ironwood," Frank says. "When you can. Soon."

Michael drives to Ironwood and finds Herald McKinnon waiting at the table — the man who pulled his family out of a blizzard eleven years ago, the man whose seven words have lived in Michael since he was ten years old. What Herald and Frank have been reading across Wawaset County has a center. Michael already knows where it is.

The siren still runs at 8:47. Michael has only heard it twice in his life. He won't forget either time.

He drives home past the turnoff to Maple Grove Road and doesn't take it. Not yet. There's a conversation coming — with his parents, with Quinn, with eleven years of silence that's about to end. But not tonight.

This is not a standalone story. The Darker Season is a continuous serialized narrative following one unfolding threat across 12 episodes. Start with Episode 1 and follow along as the darkness builds toward something that has been coming since 1977.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic horror | Serialized thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 43 mins

Content: Supernatural horror, themes of inherited burden, the cost of carrying something alone, and the patience of something ancient and hungry. No graphic content.

📚 DISCOVER THE WILLOW'S BEND NOVELS: The horror at Ironwood Retreat is just one chapter of a much larger story. The darkness in Willow's Bend has been feeding for over a century. Learn how it all began:

The Haunting of Willow's Bend Farm (1977–1978) & What Dwells Beneath (1885)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6T77TR

Both novels reveal the dark entity behind everything you just heard — and the families it consumed long before Ironwood Retreat existed.

Season 1 Collection - All 10 Tales:

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2YN5CVT

EBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H31WBJLJ

🎧 MORE TALES FROM THE HOLLOW:

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Until next time, stay out of The Hollow.

Episode 3 of Season 2 of Tales from The Hollow

Herald McKinnon has been making his rounds through Wawaset County since before the roads had names. He knows every ward he has set, every line he has held, every piece of iron he has put in the ground across a lifetime of work he has never fully explained to anyone. He knows what routine feels like.

Tuesday morning. A depression on forty-three acres of unowned bottom land. Forty-one years quiet.

Not quiet anymore.

Across town, Roy Chandler has been working through his call slips. Sixteen calls since early March. Dogs that won't go in yards. Sounds at night that one person in the house can hear and the other can't. A feeling of being watched that keeps showing up in the same part of the county. Roy has spent nine years learning to read a pattern. He is reading one now.

When Herald and Roy lay what they have found side by side, the picture becomes clear. The thing circling Willow's Bend is not moving randomly. It is building a map. And both of them know, without saying the name out loud, exactly what the center of that circle is.

Frank Harmon has known this call was coming. He has been telling himself he needs more time.

The thing circling Michael Anderson's life does not care about his schedule.

This is not a standalone story. The Darker Season is a continuous serialized narrative following one unfolding threat across 12 episodes. Start with Episode 1 and follow along as the darkness builds toward something that has been coming since 1977.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic horror | Serialized thriller Runtime: [X] mins Content: Supernatural horror, themes of ordinary life under encroaching darkness, the cost of carrying something alone, and the patience of something ancient and hungry. No graphic content.

📚 DISCOVER THE WILLOW'S BEND NOVELS: The horror at Ironwood Retreat is just one chapter of a much larger story. The darkness in Willow's Bend has been feeding for over a century. Learn how it all began:

The Haunting of Willow's Bend Farm (1977–1978) & What Dwells Beneath (1885) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6T77TR

Both novels reveal the dark entity behind everything you just heard — and the families it consumed long before Ironwood Retreat existed.

Season 1 Collection - All 10 Tales:

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2YN5CVT

EBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H31WBJLJ

🎧 MORE TALES FROM THE HOLLOW:

• YouTube: Stephen Crane Audiobooks — https://www.youtube.com/@StephenPCraneAudiobooks
• Complete series + exclusive content

📱 CONNECT:

• Subscribe for new episodes every two weeks
• Leave a review to support the show
• Share with your horror-loving friends and don't spoil what comes next

Until next time, stay out of The Hollow.

Episode 2 of Season 2 of Tales from The Hollow

Michael Anderson is twenty years old. He works the finishing stage at a copper fittings plant outside Willow's Bend. He goes to church on Sundays. He is good at his job, good at his life, good at pushing the things he does not examine back to where they belong.

He has been pushing them back since he was ten years old.

The dreams that went quiet for two years have started again. The tire swing on the old oak. His uncle's voice from the wrong direction. And something new — a figure at the end of the drive that has never been in this particular dream before. A laugh at the edge of hearing that is almost right.

Almost.

At Ironwood Retreat, Frank Harmon and Herald McKinnon have spent the winter following a thread through ten years of records. The thread points upstream along the Nakin Creek cave system toward something that was in the ground long before Ironwood existed. Frank knows they are running out of time. He is not ready to make the call.

Not yet.

This is not a standalone story. The Darker Season is a continuous serialized narrative following one unfolding threat across 12 episodes. Start with Episode 1 and follow along as the darkness builds toward something that has been coming since 1977.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic horror | Serialized thriller

Runtime: 45 mins

Content: Supernatural horror, themes of ordinary life under encroaching darkness, guilt, and the cost of carrying something alone. No graphic content.

📚 DISCOVER THE WILLOW'S BEND NOVELS: The horror at Ironwood Retreat is just one chapter of a much larger story. The darkness in Willow's Bend has been feeding for over a century. Learn how it all began: The Haunting of Willow's Bend Farm (1977–1978) & What Dwells Beneath (1885) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN6T77TR

Both novels reveal the dark entity behind everything you just heard — and the families it consumed long before Ironwood Retreat existed.

🎧 MORE TALES FROM THE HOLLOW:

• YouTube: Stephen Crane Audiobooks — https://www.youtube.com/@StephenPCraneAudiobooks
• Complete series + exclusive content
• Season 1 Collection: All 10 Tales coming soon

📱 CONNECT:

• Subscribe for new episodes every two weeks
• Leave a review to support the show
• Share with your horror-loving friends and don't spoil what comes next

Until next time, stay out of The Hollow.