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The door rattled. Not a slam. Just a soft, patient testing of the lock. Then the voice again, clearer now, almost gentle.

Elara’s father had become Hollow three winters ago. She remembered him coming inside at dusk, shaking mist from his coat. “It’s nothing,” he’d said, coughing. “Just a little fog.” That night, she heard him get up. Walk to the door. Open it. She’d screamed, grabbed his arm, but he didn’t turn around. His eyes were already the color of old milk.

Slow. Measured. Not frantic. Hollow never hurried. Fear the Night

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“Elara.”

Elara pressed her back against the headboard, knuckles white around the hammer’s handle. The candles had burned low. She’d stopped using lanterns months ago—light attracted them, or maybe it just made their shadows look more like people.

For three years, the village of Stillwater had obeyed a single commandment, carved into the oak doors of every home: The door rattled

A long silence. Then, pressed directly against the wood of the door, as if the thing outside had laid its cheek against the grain: