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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 Th...

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...

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...

Episode 1 of Season 2 of Tales from The Hollow

Something is getting stronger in Wawaset County.

Guardian Herald McKinnon has been managing the old places in Willow's Bend for longer than most people have been alive. When the thing in Deadman's Hollow starts speaking about Ironwood Retreat — and about a letter that hadn't been delivered yet — he knows the calculation has changed.

Caretaker Frank Harmon has held the watch at Ironwood alone for ten years. He has kept the records. He has maintained the wards. He has done everything right. And three weeks ago, some...

Story 10 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Keith Barnett is a Columbus taxi driver who survived Ironwood Retreat once. That was six years ago. He made his confession, held the iron, and drove away telling himself it was finished. For six years he almost believed it. Now the mirrors are wrong again and the back seat of his cab feels occupied even when it's empty. He knows what it means. He knows what he left unsaid.

Frank Harmon has kept the watch for ten years. He manages Keith's return the way he manages everything...

Story 9 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Cole Decker is a long-haul trucker stranded on a back road in Grindstone Hollow. Dorothy Reeves is a county records clerk who drove out Old Mill Road telling herself she was just checking on something. When both end up at Ironwood Retreat on the same sweltering July weekend, the hollow takes notice. It doesn't break the wards. It doesn't force the doors. It finds what people carry inside themselves and walks right through. Frank Harmon has kept this watch for nine years. He does everything right. This weekend is...

Story 8 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Aaron Bledsoe is a bank foreclosure specialist. He has spent thirty years collecting what others owe. When he discovers an abandoned mill in rural Ohio with no clear owner and no tax records since 1952, he sees opportunity. What he doesn't know is that twelve men died in that mill, trapped and burning, owing debts they could never repay. After the siren sounds at 8:47 PM, the Lienholders come. They know his name. They know his brother. They know every debt he has ever collected, and the one he has refused...

Story 7 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Michael thought he left the supernatural behind when the haunting at his family's farm ended. But when his cousin Samantha suggests helping Frank with spring maintenance at Ironwood Retreat in March 1985, the sixteen-year-old takes the job. What should be a simple weekend clearing trees becomes a nightmare when the dead rise and walk the compound at Ironwood Retreat. Trapped inside Unit 3 with nowhere to run, Michael must survive until dawn while the Hollow tests him with an army of the walking dead. Some nightmares won't stay buried.

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Story 6 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Carla Simmons is a former ER nurse. She's been running from guilt for six months. When something pulls her to Ironwood Retreat in late February 1984, she discovers she can't leave. Three figures appear at her door across three nights—each one wearing a hospital gown, each one calling her by name. They know what happened during that code in August. They know why she froze. And The Flatline won't let her run anymore.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic ghost story | Medical thriller

Runtime: 1 hr 39 min

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Story 5 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Ray Butler is a retired postal worker. He's been running from a conversation for four years. When his wife finally breaks on New Year's Eve 1983, Ray flees to Ironwood Retreat—only to discover he can't leave. The Toll Keeper blocks every bridge. It wears Ray's old uniform. It speaks with his son's voice. And it demands payment: the words Ray never said, the forgiveness he never gave, the love he was too proud to show.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic ghost story | Atmospheric thriller

Runtime: 2 hr 3 mi...

THE YULETIDE

A Christmas Horror Story from Tales from The Hollow

Two estranged sisters. One snowbound retreat. A Christmas that demands the truth.

Claire and Jenny haven't spoken in eight years—not since their mother's funeral revealed deep wounds neither could face. When they return to rural Ohio to scatter her ashes at a remote retreat, a blizzard traps them with the secrets they've buried for decades.

As Christmas decorations manifest unbidden and a figure wearing their dead mother's face appears in th...

Story 3 of Season 1 of Tales from The Hollow

Keith Barnett is a taxi driver. Jennifer Morrison is a mother. Both carry guilt. Both arrive at Ironwood Retreat seeking escape. Both discover The Passenger waiting in every reflection.

1980s supernatural horror | Gothic ghost story | Atmospheric thriller

Runtime: 1 hr 56 min

Content: Psychological horror, no graphic content

A single mother takes a construction job at an isolated retreat to make ends meet. Three weeks of work, eight hundred dollars, enough to keep her family afloat. But when something in the stagnant pool begins using her estranged sister's voice, Diane Matthews must repair more than just a fence—she must face eight years of silence and the creature that feeds on broken families.

Set in September 1981 at Ironwood Retreat in rural Ohio, "Thicker Than Water" is the second tale in the Tales from The Hollow series. A story about guilt, reconciliation, and the darkness that ca...

Some debts can't be paid to the living.

Marcus Webb thought a weekend at Ironwood Retreat would help him escape his guilt. But when his dead wife's voice calls to him from outside his window, he realizes some secrets refuse to stay buried.

Episode 1 of Season 1 of Tales From The Hollow

Written by Stephen Crane