The Silent County

von Arlotta

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

At 5:14 in the morning, Blackwood County goes silent.Deputy Marcus Ash wakes to a world where sound has simply stopped carrying. His mechanical clock is still running, the Blackwood River is still moving, and the wind still pushes through the trees, yet none of it makes a sound. Even his own voice seems to disappear inches from his mouth.Then Marcus discovers that his bloodhound, Copper, is missing. The kennel is intact, but the doghouse floor has been torn apart from above, and deep claw marks disappear straight into the earth beneath the cabin. Across the valley, eighty head of cattle have vanished. Horses have broken through their stalls. Hunting dogs are digging beneath foundations. Every household is reporting the same impossible behavior.Marcus knows this is not an ordinary weather phenomenon. His experience as a naval acoustic technician tells him that something is moving beneath Blackwood County. Using an old geophone, he detects a precise 11.4-hertz vibration traveling through the limestone bedrock - a vast subterranean resonance unlike an earthquake and powerful enough to make the entire valley feel alive.When Marcus brings his concerns to Sheriff Gabriel Thorn, he is dismissed. But the evidence keeps mounting. Old county records reveal secrets buried beneath the town, while Dr. Elena Frost and veteran engineer Oliver Frost uncover clues suggesting that Blackwood has faced this phenomenon before.Soon the silence becomes more than an absence of sound. It becomes a warning.Something beneath the valley is responding to human noise, mapping the town through vibration and forcing animals underground to escape it. As the phenomenon grows stronger, Blackwood's roads, buildings, communications, and even the mountain itself become part of a terrifying acoustic trap.Marcus and his companions must lead the remaining survivors into the municipal shelter and discover how the old records, the subterranean resonance, and the town's buried history are connected. But the deeper they investigate, the clearer it becomes that Blackwood's silence is not natural - and that whatever is beneath the county has been waiting for the right sound to wake it.With the town collapsing around them and an ancient force moving beneath the limestone, Marcus faces a final choice: remain silent and hope the darkness passes, or make enough noise to draw the creature away from the people hiding below.The Silent County is a tense supernatural survival thriller combining small-town mystery, subterranean horror, acoustic science, and relentless suspense. In Blackwood, silence does not mean safety. Sometimes, silence means something is listening.

• Themen: Belletristik Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches
• ISBN: 9798182795937
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Giuseppe Arlotta