A child marked for sacrifice. A town bound by blood. A hunger that never dies. In the fog-choked town of Hallowell, tradition is survival-and every twenty-five years, that tradition demands blood. When twelve-year-old Jonah Hale is chosen as the next offering to a nameless entity known only as the Hungering One, he becomes the unwilling key to a pact forged in shadow and sealed in ritual. But Jonah runs. What follows is a desperate chase through twisted woods, a town unraveling in fear, and the awakening of something vast, ancient, and ravenous. As livestock are slaughtered in ritual patterns and children vanish without a trace, the fog thickens, and the townspeople face the unraveling cost of generations of silence. From the cryptic diary of a missing girl to a forensic investigator drawn into the supernatural, The Devil's Hand spirals into a visceral, psychological horror where every step deeper into the mist reveals new terror-and no one is safe from the debt long overdue. Fans of The Ritual, The Wicker Man, and The Mist will find a chilling descent into dread in this relentless folk horror novel.