Stories Kept Beneath The Hills

Stories Kept Beneath The Hills

Stories Kept Beneath the Hills is a collection of dark Irish folk tales drawn from the older edge of the tradition, where the fair folk were not kind, the land remembered every wrong, and curiosity was often fatal. These stories speak of fairy mounds that opened once and were never meant to be entered again, of music played underground that stole a lifetime in a single night, of bargains offered without mercy, and of beings who watched humanity not with hatred, but with cold amusement. In these tellings, the hills listen, the waters keep what they take, and the past does not stay buried. Rooted in pre-Christian belief and shaped in the spare, unsettling voice of oral tradition, these tales are written as they might once have been told by firelight: without explanation, without comfort, and without apology. They are not lessons. They are warnings. For readers of folk horror, mythic fiction, and ancient legends where the supernatural is neither romantic nor safe, Stories Kept Beneath the Hills offers twenty tales that remember what the old stories were trying to teach us. Some doors were hidden for a reason. Some stories were kept because they should not be repeated.