Dogman Tales

For decades, residents of a small Arkansas town have heard a terrifying howl echo through the surrounding forests and swamps—a sound no animal should be able to make. The locals call it the Howler. No one knows what it is, and no one has ever gotten a clear look at it, but the stories have been passed down since the nineteen-fifties. Most people have learned to ignore the sound and stay out of the woods after dark. But when a group of kids decides they’re finally going to track the source of those haunting cries, they discover there may be a very good reason the older generation never tried.

A county road worker is sent alone into the remote wilderness of Pine Hollow to repair a washed-out stretch of road before a utility crew arrives. What begins as a routine job quickly turns into a fight for survival when he realizes something massive is stalking him from the surrounding forest. Trapped overnight in an abandoned line shack with his equipment destroyed and no way to call for help, he must endure a terrifying siege by a creature that seems more interested in breaking his will than killing him. By morning he escapes the hollow—but he leaves knowing the thing that hunted him is still out there.

When a rural power crew is sent deep into a remote stretch of forest to clear and repair a right-of-way, they expect downed lines, rough terrain, and long hours. What they don’t expect is something watching them from the tree line. At first, it’s just small things—tools moved, distant howls, that heavy feeling of being observed. But as the days pass, it becomes clear the crew has crossed into territory that doesn’t belong to them, and whatever claims it isn’t willing to give up ground without a fight.

In medieval England, the villagers of Edwinstowe live by old rules: stay out of Sherwood after dusk, travel in numbers, and never follow strange silence beneath the trees. When livestock begins vanishing from latched pens and men start disappearing without a trace, the village is forced to admit what they’ve avoided naming for years—something in Sherwood isn’t a wolf, and it isn’t a man. As torches fail, traps are tested, and the forest itself seems to shift against them, a hunting party pushes into the heart of the woods to challenge the thing that has claimed it. What they find explains why Sherwood’s fear outlived kings, laws, and time itself.

A late-night search for a missing hiker pulls a seasoned rescue team deep into a silent mountain ridge. When the forest goes dead and massive claw marks appear where no bear should reach, they realize they aren’t alone. What begins as a recovery mission turns into a calculated game of control as towering, upright predators herd them through fog-filled hollows and narrow switchbacks. The team will get the missing man out alive—but only because something in the woods allows it.