The rain in Bradford was a relentless gray curtain, the kind that soaked into your bones before you even stepped outside. Elias sat in his cramped apartment, the blue light of his laptop the only thing cutting through the gloom. On the screen, a flickering forum page displayed the words he’d been hunting for weeks:
Elias felt a sudden, icy draft. He checked the window; it was locked tight. He returned to the screen, scrolling deeper. The story described a man named Bradford who had entered the Hollow to find his missing sister. As Elias read, he realized the descriptions were terrifyingly precise. He recognized the crooked oak by the creek, the abandoned stone well, and the smell of damp earth and rot. Download Witch the Woods Bradford Bates epub
The door creaked open, and instead of the hallway, Elias saw only the deep, suffocating green of the Hollow, and the smell of ancient earth filled his lungs. The rain in Bradford was a relentless gray
He opened the EPUB. The text didn’t look like a standard ebook. The font was erratic, varying from elegant script to jagged, scratched lines. He checked the window; it was locked tight
A heavy thud echoed from his front door. Not a knock—a weight, as if something large and wet had leaned against the wood. Through the thin walls, he heard the rustle of leaves and the snapping of twigs, though he lived on the fourth floor of a concrete building.