What the Hollow Keeps: A Novel of Folk Horror, (Paperback)

<b>The land remembers. The bargain holds. The hollow keeps what it is given.</b>When Naomi Arceneaux returns to her grandmother's Louisiana bayou property to settle the estate, she finds more than she bargained for: a house impossibly well-preserved after years of neglect, a ledger of secrets spanning five generations, and something in the northeast quadrant of the land that has been waiting for her.The hollow - le creux vivant - has held the Arceneaux land safe for a hundred and thirty years. Through flood and fire and the relentless legal pressure of families who have wanted what the hollow offers and never been allowed to have it. The price of that protection has been paid by the women of the family, generation by generation, in the tradition of the keeping: a relationship older than the bargain, older than the house, older than anyone who has stood at the edge of the dark water and spoken their truths into it.Naomi left this place at twenty-four and spent ten years building a life in New York. She came back to decide whether to sell. She is going to decide something else entirely.<i>What the Hollow Keeps</i> is a debut novel of folk horror set in the bayou parishes of Louisiana, in the tradition of atmospheric Southern Gothic fiction. For readers of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Karen Russell, and the southern grotesque.<b>Content note: </b> This novel contains themes of ancestral loss, land theft, grief, and the supernatural. It is not for the faint of heart. Some things see better in the dark.

• What the Hollow Keeps: A Novel of Folk Horror, (Paperback)
• Author: R S Grimshaw
• ISBN: 9798180929945
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-10
• Page Count: 404