The Gathering Stones: A Hollow Creek Haunting

In the fog-choked cemetery outside Hollow Creek, the dead don't stay put. Every night, without a single footprint or sound, the gravestones shift a few inches closer together, dragging decades of buried secrets toward one unmarked grave at the center of the field. When Rebecca Holloway starts mapping the movements, she realizes the stones aren't wandering at random. They're being called. As she and Cole Donovan dig into the cemetery's forgotten records, and groundskeeper Nathan Graves reveals what he's spent years trying to keep buried, Rebecca learns that whatever waits beneath that final stone has been counting the days until every grave in Hollow Creek finally comes home.

Connor Hayes CH writes horror and paranormal fiction rooted in quiet, ordinary places where something has been waiting far too long to be noticed. Drawing on small-town folklore and the unease of forgotten history, Connor's stories explore what happens when the past refuses to stay buried. When not writing, Connor collects old local legends and cemetery records, always searching for the next unsettling idea hiding in plain sight.