{"product_id":"lull-supernatural-horror-thriller-a-quiet-folk-horror-thriller-about-a-town-facing-generational-death-where-pregnant-women-hear-lullabies-from-som-9798244048674","title":"LULL (supernatural horror thriller): A Quiet Folk Horror Thriller About a Town Facing Generational Death, Where Pregnant Women Hear Lullabies From Som","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Prasanth N. M.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Supernatural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a town where no child has been born in a decade, three women hear a voice in the darkness and it promises them everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeridian is dying. For ten years, not a single pregnancy has lasted beyond the first trimester. The elementary school stands half-empty. Young families flee to cities where fertility still exists. Those who remain have learned to live with the lull, the terrible silence where children's laughter should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Sarah Hartwell discovers she's pregnant. Impossibly pregnant. Her uterus was removed years ago, yet something is growing inside her. Within the same week, two other women conceive after years of desperate trying. Three miracles. Three perfect pregnancies. Three babies who shouldn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut miracles come with prices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach night, a voice visits the three ancient, soothing women, speaking in languages older than memory. It promises painless births. Healthy children. Everything they've dreamed of for so long. All they have to do is accept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah accepts. She has no choice; her body is already changing, her impossible pregnancy advancing with supernatural precision. But as the months pass and her daughter grows, Sarah begins to understand what she's truly agreed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe voice wants payment. And payment comes due on the child's seventh birthday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a desperate race against time as Sarah, along with the other mothers, uncovers the horrifying history of Meridian's cycles of fertility and loss. Every few generations, the lull returns. Desperate women make bargains with something that lives beneath the town's old playground, the feeding ground where reality grows thin. Children are born. Families celebrate. And seven years later, those children transform into hollow vessels, their souls harvested by an entity that feeds on maternal desperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah has seven years to find a way to break the compact. Seven years to protect her daughter Grace while also shielding her older daughter Emma from the entity's spreading influence. Seven years to discover whether a mother's love can defeat ancient hunger or whether that love is exactly what makes her children vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Grace's seventh birthday approaches, Sarah faces an impossible choice: offer herself as a substitute and become the hollow thing she's fought to prevent her daughter from becoming, or watch Grace transform into an emotionless copy wearing her daughter's face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut the entity's bargains are never as simple as they appear. And the price of salvation may be higher than anyone can bear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLULL\u003c\/b\u003e is a devastating exploration of maternal sacrifice, supernatural predation, and the terrible question at the heart of parenthood: \u003ci\u003eWhat would you give up to protect your child? And what happens when what you give up is yourself?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who loved the creeping dread of \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Companions\u003c\/i\u003e, the family horror of \u003ci\u003ePet Sematary\u003c\/i\u003e, and the folkloric terror of \u003ci\u003eThe Twisted Ones\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eLULL\u003c\/b\u003e will haunt you long after you turn the final page because the most terrifying monsters are the ones that offer us exactly what we need, then collect payment we never agreed to give.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterful blend of psychological horror and supernatural suspense. Prasanth N.M. has crafted a nightmare that every parent will recognize: the fear that love isn't enough to protect your children from the things that hunger for them.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContent Warning: \u003c\/b\u003e This novel contains themes of pregnancy loss, child endangerment, maternal sacrifice, body horror, and supernatural predation. Reader discretion is advised.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47778957328535,"sku":"9798244048674","price":1105.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798244048674.webp?v=1778032367","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lull-supernatural-horror-thriller-a-quiet-folk-horror-thriller-about-a-town-facing-generational-death-where-pregnant-women-hear-lullabies-from-som-9798244048674","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}