The Field - Softcover

Parrish, R D

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ISBN 13: 9798237895414

Publisher: R.D. Parrish, 2026

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THE FIELD
Some ground should never be broken.

Four feet down, Evan Wallace's shovel strikes something that shouldn't exist.

Not rock or the usual Carolina clay.
A barrier. Engineered. Deliberate. Sealed by people who knew that forgetting wasn't weakness-it was survival.

Richard Moore doesn't care. The funeral home is failing. The cemetery is full. The east tract looks empty, and empty land means profit. He orders the burials to continue.

That's when the pressure begins.

In the mind and in the bones. A weight that doesn't lift. Animals abandon the ridge. Neighbors turn on each other with fists and worse. Good people become capable of terrible things, and they don't know why.

The soil compacts on its own.
Graves finish themselves.
And something beneath the membrane begins to respond.

Archaeologist Janet Rowe uncovers what the town spent centuries trying to erase: the east tract was never empty. It was contained.

Deliberately isolated from memory, ritual, and acknowledgment. Because the barrier wasn't designed to hold something in, it was designed to keep the living from remembering so that it could feed.

But Richard Moore has broken the seal. Every casket lowered through the breach is an invitation. Every funeral is acknowledgment. And whatever lies beneath doesn't forgive, it collects.

Now the debt is coming due.

The field doesn't think. It doesn't scheme. It doesn't explain itself.
It only reacts.

And when containment fails, someone must pay the price.

For readers who crave Southern Gothic dread, supernatural horror rooted in human cruelty, and endings that don't offer comfort, only consequence.

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About the Author

R.D. Parrish is an American author whose work blends atmospheric horror, Southern Gothic melancholy, and deeply human storytelling. A Marine Corps veteran and longtime resident of the American South, Parrish draws inspiration from the quiet places-flooded fields, forgotten towns, and the heavy, humid stillness where memory clings to the earth.

His debut novel, Hollow Ground, is an intimate rural-horror tale set in the fictional Mississippi Delta community of Gethsemane Parish, where relentless rain awakens an ancient, listening intelligence beneath the soil. Parrish is known for crafting horror that is slow-burning, emotional, and rooted in character-stories where fear emerges not from monsters, but from misunderstanding, grief, and the fragile ways humans try to connect.

Parrish writes with a focus on atmosphere, psychological depth, and the strange beauty of the natural world. When he isn't writing, he enjoys time with his family, exploring small-town history, and working on the next haunting story set in the world just beneath our feet.

He lives in the United States with his wife, De.

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