Olyoke, Vincent Endwell

Description

Welcome to Olyoke, Tennessee. Population: secrets, sorrow… and something waiting.

In Olyoke, Vincent Endwell crafts a strange, mesmerizing descent into a town where the ordinary has begun to rot at the edges. Beneath the cheerful façade of a Dollywood-style theme park lies a history of troubled families, creeping plagues, and the lingering prophecy of a long-dead architect turned cult leader—one who promised a fire that would cleanse everything.

That fire is coming.

And the town is already beginning to change.

A Dolly Parton impersonator discovers something writhing in the swamp—and feeds it to her dog, who soon begins speaking in the voice of her dead mother. A recently divorced man is summoned by a house that insists it is him. A woman staging a play to hold herself together starts to believe that only her dreams are real… and that the version of herself who walks in sleep is ready to welcome the end.

As reality fractures and identities blur, the people of Olyoke are drawn together by forces they cannot name and cannot escape.

Part Appalachian horror, part weird fiction, Olyoke is an eerie, lyrical mosaic of transformation, dread, and dark humor—where something unknowable has been quietly growing, and nothing will remain untouched when it finally emerges.

Book Details

• Author: Vincent Endwell
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: March 20, 2026
• ISBN: 9781959790538