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For fans of Stephen King's IT and the folk horror of MIDSOMMAR, WHAT THE GROUND KEEPS is a small-town horror novel about the price a community pays to survive.Cole Ferris swore he would never go back to Sable. Twenty-six years ago his little brother walked down to the old quarry and never came home, and the town called it a runaway. Cole called it the worst night of his life and left for good.Now a construction company has hired him to build on the very ground he ran from, and the dig has broken open something that was sealed under the water in 1962 for a reason no one will say out loud. People are going missing again. The dark has started using the voices of the people they love. And an old man in town keeps telling anyone who will listen that there is only one way to make it stop, the way Sable used to make it stop, for a hundred and eighty years.The ground keeps what it takes. And it has been waiting a long time to be let out. Be quiet. Be still. Do not answer it. Read more
