The Hollowing (THE SEAM | A Mac Pistis Series)

In Ashford, Pennsylvania, people don't just disappear. They get replaced.Detective Macariotes "Mac" Pistis has spent sixteen years working homicide in a town that's been dying since the mills closed. He's seen the worst people can do to each other. He thought nothing could shake him anymore.Then they find the woman in the old steel mill — turned inside out, still breathing.When the body vanishes from a sealed morgue and Mac discovers identical cases stretching back over a century, his investigation pulls him beneath Ashford itself — into a vast underground labyrinth the locals call "the Grid." Down there, the walls are woven from something that used to be human. Down there, something ancient has been keeping the town alive by hollowing out its people and replacing them with perfect copies.Mac's partner. His neighbors. The priest at St. Casimir's. Anyone in Ashford could already be one of them — and they don't even know it.Now, armed with an 82-year-old archivist's lifetime of impossible evidence, a Jesuit priest who mapped the tunnels beneath the city, and a fourteen-year-old daughter who can sense what he can't, Mac must descend into the dark beneath everything he knows. Three generations of Pistis men have gone down. His grandfather in 1989. His father in 1997. Neither came back."Πίστι, κατέλθε." — Come down, faithful one.THE HOLLOWING is a visceral supernatural thriller that blends the atmospheric dread of True Detective Season 1 with the mythic horror of Clive Barker's Weaveworld. Set in the crumbling Rust Belt gothic of western Pennsylvania, it is a story about a man who has spent his whole life not feeling — and the ancient thing beneath his hometown that needs him exactly that way.Book 1 of The Seam — A Mac Pistis Series. Read more