BOOK REVIEW | HOLLOW KING | WAYLAN GRAVES
HOLLOW KING - REVIEW Hollow King lobs Appalachian folk horror, creature feature chaos and a big sack of backwoods weirdness into a blender and hits max SETUP When the Mothman begins terrifying a local town, monster hunter Cryptid Carl offers the mayor to get rid of his problem. Along with his creatures in arms Yaya the Yellowtop and Squonk, Carl captures the beast and takes it back to Storm Mountain where it can live in relative safety. However, things don't go as planned. Especially when he bumps into a figure from his past, The Smiling Man. Facing demons and the ghosts of his past, Carl and his crew will need all the help they can get to stop the nightmare from spreading. REVIEW Mixing supernatural elements with cryptid creature feature chaos and Appalachian folk horror, Hollow King tells the story of Carl — otherwise known as Cryptid Carl. Living in the foothills of Storm Mountain, Carl makes his living getting rid of the spooky little (or not-so-little) critters that haunt Ap...
