The Hollow Mile: A Highway Horror Novel by Tommy Marcum is a tense, time-twisted horror story about a stretch of road that doesn’t just eat cars—it rewrites lives.

In rural Alabama, there’s a rumor that every driver knows and nobody wants to test: between Exit 30 and 31 on Highway 19 lies a mile that never takes the same amount of time twice.

Some nights, it’s over in a blink.
Other nights, the clock jumps, the fuel gauge drops, and the darkness outside your headlights feels thick enough to drown in.

For Darren Cole, a recovering pill addict and desperate father, the Hollow Mile is just another part of his new night-shift job—until the road starts calling him by name.

• Voices bleeding through the radio from wrecks that “already happened.”
• Missing minutes, impossible fuel loss, and GPS maps freezing on that same strip of asphalt.
• Small changes every time he comes home: a neighbor with different memories, a new plaque on the school wall, a child who suddenly never existed.

The more Darren drives, the more he realizes the highway isn’t just stealing time—it’s overwriting reality, shaving off versions of his town and leaving them stranded on dead-end branches of the world. And every trip across the Hollow Mile forces a choice:

What would you change
if the road would take the hit for you?
Your record? Your mistakes? Your own life?

To save his children from being erased—or worse, rewritten into lives without him—Darren has to map the impossible loops, confront the hungry geometry beneath the asphalt, and decide which version of Harlow Bend deserves to survive… even if it means he doesn’t.

If you love:

• Highway and road-trip horror with a supernatural twist
• Blue-collar, working-class protagonists fighting forces bigger than they are
• Psychological, reality-bending dread in the spirit of cosmic horror and time anomalies

then The Hollow Mile: A Highway Horror Novel will keep you white-knuckled and sleepless, long after you finish.

Lock your doors. Watch the mile markers.
And if the road ever feels too long… don’t look back.