Maggie's Grave

Auchenmullan has forty-seven residents left. They live under the shadow of a mountain, beside a dead mill, and below a lone grave at the summit marked with the words Maggie Wall buried here as a witch.

The grave dates to 1657, when a mob killed an innocent woman as a witch and took her child. She cursed them as she died, and for centuries nothing came of it. In 2019, four local teenagers, Beth, Grady, Steve and Alice, climb up to look at the grave. Something old and hungry wakes.

Maggie is back to claim her baby, and she intends to cut her way through the entire village to get it. The story follows Beth most closely, so the horror is seen largely through her eyes.

This is folk horror built as a slasher, gruesome and fast. Expect blood and speed rather than slow dread. Beneath the killing sit false accusation, revenge, and the secrets that parents keep from their children.