AMBER WILLIS
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What Lurks in the Hollers & Other Eldritch Horrors Is Now Available!
Step into the haunting landscapes of rural Tennessee with this chilling collection of cosmic horror, folk terror, and eldritch nightmares. From forgotten hollers to shadowed woods, these stories explore the strange, the unsettling, and the unknowable lurking just beyond the edge of the familiar.
Pre-order your copy today and be among the first to discover the horrors waiting in the hollers.
This collection brings together 9 short stories—sharp, immersive, and unsettling in the best way. These are stories you can move through quickly, but they won’t leave you just as fast.
Amber’s writing pulls you in gently through familiar places, and relaxing moments … And before you realize it, you’re no longer standing where you thought you were. There’s a quiet pressure in her work, something that builds beneath the surface, turning the familiar into something uncanny. And we love it!
“In What Lurks in the Hollers, Amber Willis crafts a love letter to the beautiful, brutal, and blood-soaked landscape of rural Tennessee, unearthing the quiet, suffocating dread that waits just beyond the tree line.”
- Kevin David Anderson, Author of Night of the Living Trekkies, and Midnight Men
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Don’t miss the special Amber Willis tote bag and the Limited Editions of the official What Lurks in the Hollers & Other Eldritch Horrors T-shirt and tote bag by Amber Willis.
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About Amber Willis
Amber Willis lurks in the mountains of North Carolina. As a child, she clambered along the mountainside, flipping over rocks to find salamanders; wrote and made little books out of construction paper; and came up with horror stories to scare her little sister.
In 2025, Amber graduated with honors from East Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Paleontology and minor in Biology. She worked full-time as a welder while attending college and continued writing in her free time.
Amber has contributed short stories and drabbles to anthologies and websites. She loves horror but sometimes cheats on her beloved with fantasy.
Amber continues to work full-time as a welder and writes whenever opportunity arises. She runs loose in the hollers, looking for birds during the day and becoming a nocturnal stalker of bats and frogs. She still sends her little sister horror stories.
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