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The Hollow Pines Inn
Snowed into a cosy mountain inn, you're treated like family by a town that is far too kind. Something in the woods is owed a guest — and you signed the book.
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The story so far
The storm closed the pass an hour after you reached Hollow Pines, a mountain town of four hundred souls, one gas station and an inn that looks lifted off a Christmas card. The roads will be shut for at least three days. Phones are patchy, the power keeps flickering, and the radio says the worst snow in fifty years is still coming.
Nobody seems to mind. The innkeeper has put fresh quilts on your bed and saved you the best seat by the fire. The sheriff stopped by to make sure you're comfortable. A woman from the church brought pie. Everyone remembers your name, and everyone is so glad you're here.
It's just the little things. The way the townsfolk stop talking when you walk in. The children's skipping rhyme about a Guest. The old guest book in the lobby, its first entry dated 1926 — and the way the room goes quiet when you sign it. Stay warm. Stay polite. And whatever you do, don't go into the woods after dark… unless you have to.
People you might meet
Ruth Marrow
Innkeeper, host, reluctant executioner
The innkeeper: warm, motherly, tireless — and the one who must give the guest to the woods.
Deputy Cole Marrow
Deputy, potential ally
Ruth's thirty-year-old son, a sweet, earnest deputy who has no idea what his town is.
Sheriff Bev Lindgren
Sheriff, gatekeeper
The town's no-nonsense sheriff, who knows exactly what's coming and has decided to look away.
Pastor Amos Greer
Pastor, guilty conscience, key ally
The elderly pastor of the White Church, haunted by the 1976 Storm Vigil.
Hank Dutton
Zealot, active threat
Owner of the general store: jovial, generous, the bargain's most fervent believer.
June Castellano
Fellow stranger, ally, victim
A travelling nurse also stranded at the inn: funny, observant, the other possible guest.
Wendell Marsh
Hermit, oracle, last-resort ally
A wild-bearded hermit in the woods who walked Danny Ruiz partway to the Ring in 1976 and came back changed.
Milly Kowalczyk
Child witness
A ten-year-old who hangs around the inn, sings the Guest rhyme, and draws what she sees at night.
The Neighbour
The horror, a party to the bargain
The thing in the woods: impossibly tall, impeccably polite, dressed in the clothes of guests long gone.
Marta Kowalczyk
Housekeeper, red herring, frightened mother
The inn's housekeeper and Milly's mother: brisk, tireless, kind to guests and creeping into Room Seven every night at half past eleven.
Desmond Pike
Second guest, red herring, possible ally or substitute
The other stranded guest in Room Three: a quiet man with a camera, a lie about his job and a revolver in his bag.
Ana Ruiz
Hidden stranger, ally, the missing hiker
A graduate student who came looking for her great-uncle in October and never left: now 'Annie', the pastor's grand-niece.
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