The Narrows

The flood drags a hairless boy onto the muddy banks of the Narrows, and by morning his body has vanished from the morgue. In Stillwater, Maryland, a drowned town of empty factories and flooded cornfields a week before Halloween, young Matthew Crawly goes down to the culvert with his friend and looks up to see his estranged father watching from the hill. That night Matthew disappears from his yard, leaving only a shirt slit with strange punctures. While police sergeant Ben Journell hunts for him and a shaken driver swears she hit a pale child that left no mark, other grieving neighbors glimpse their own dead loved ones after dark. Something flood-borne is nesting among them, wearing the faces they miss.