Appalachian Horror - Summer of the Drowned

A Supernatural Thriller of a Haunted Lake and the Ghosts of a Sunken Town

A remote cabin. A final vacation before graduation. Five friends thought they had found the perfect escape, but Dead Elk Lake isn't just remote; it's wrong. The water is unnaturally still, the woods are unnervingly silent, and a creepy local has given them one rule: stay out of the water after dark.

One drunken dare changes everything. One friend is lost to the black water, sinking like a stone in a way that defies physics. Now, trapped with no cell service and no escape, they learn the horrifying truth the locals have always known. The lake is a graveyard—a whole town called Devil's Hollow was drowned beneath its surface a century ago.

But the dead don’t rest easy.

When night falls, the true residents of the lake begin to surface. Gaunt, smiling things with an ancient hunger, the drowned ghosts of the hollow have been waiting. Trapped by a rising flood and hunted by creatures from a watery grave, the friends' last hurrah has become a desperate fight for survival against a town that refuses to stay buried.

In this valley, the water remembers. And it is thirsty.

“The Fog” for a YA reader (or listener)

Well, I usually enjoy Ethan Blackwoods books but I was not grooving with this one -and right away. Something was off as Ethan was leaving more holes on the plot than a mile of bad road. That’s a dumb joke, but not as dumb as his characters were acting. This has to be one of the stupidest ways to kick off an attack by the undead. Saying “l’ll race ya’ on old broken paddle boards over haunted lake ( that’s covering a drowned cemetery and is quickly filling with glowing fog ). Really, no really they do that. No one sees a zombie until chapter 7 - yet the kids are going on and wondering how are they gonna get away by boarding up the windows to keep out… what? No one’s told them YET there are zombies in the lake. Hmmm, but if they can guess so good about a zombie attack, why’d they put themselves in that really stupid position IN THE FIRST PLACE ? Well, Ethan started to get good with a real heavy glowing fog, back- walking dead with glowing eyes… all great stuff. Unless of course you’ve seen John Carpenter’s “the Fog”.