The Things That Haunt You

Seven years ago, Riley Kingston survived a camping trip in the Montana mountains that took the lives of her friends and left Riley certain something followed her out of the wilderness. After years of untreated PTSD and unanswered questions, Riley returns to her family's remote ranch determined to finally put the past behind her.

Instead, she senses the presence in the mountains never left, and may be growing stronger.

When dead cattle are discovered on the property, sheriff's deputy Jake Hansen investigates. The crime mirrors a disappearance from his own past, one that was never solved and quietly dismissed as an accident.

As Riley and Jake begin to compare notes, they uncover a connection between the cattle, the disappearance of a snowmobiler, and an old regional legend of the Blackfeet Nation. The entity stalking the ranch has been feeding for generations, preying on isolation, fear, and unresolved trauma.

As the attacks escalate and the boundaries between psychological and supernatural horror blur, Riley must confront what truly happened during the camping trip and decide whether she is haunted by a manifestation of trauma or an ancient force that demands a reckoning.

If she's wrong, she won't survive a second encounter.

Bleak, tense, and deeply unsettling, The Things That Haunt You is folklore horror at its most grounded and realistic; a novel about isolation, unresolved trauma, and the challenge of separating real dangers from those we invent.

E.A. Griffith's debut novel is set amongst the landscapes, legends, and silences of rural Montana; landscapes that she is all too familiar with. Part psychological thriller, part creature horror, this is a book that does not flinch or reassure.

It poses, and continues to ask, a simple yet terrifying question: what if the thing you've been telling yourself is inside your head has been out in the woods all along?