The Hollows of Blackwood County

Elias Vane is a surveyor. He measures things. He does not believe in ghosts.

But when he returns to the fog-drowned hollow his mother fled in 1979, he finds a handwritten ledger sealed inside a chimney wall. It lists two hundred years of debts owed to his family — and every debt was paid in blood, in years, in children. The last entry is not closed. The ink is still wet.

Now the ledger has his name ...