Hollow Folk

Name: Hollow Folk
ISBN: 978-1-967911-49-3

by Andrew K. Clark

Publisher

Quill & Crow Publishing House

Publication

Sep 29, 2026

Format

Paperback/Softback

Illustrated

Price

19.99

ISBN

978-1-967911-49-3

Pages

260

Age

Adult 18+

Rights Sold

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Description

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.

Author(s)

Andrew K. Clark

Andrew K. Clark is a writer from Western North Carolina, where his people settled before the Revolutionary War. His debut novel, Where Dark Things Grow (Cowboy Jamboree Press), was a finalist for the Manly Wade Wellman Award, shortlisted for the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, and won an IPPY from the Independent Book Publishers Awards. The sequel, Where Dark Things Rise (Quill & Crow Publishing House), won an IndieReader Discovery Award and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award. Hollow Folk is his third novel.