C. Kelly Boutwell – författare

Calla never expected motherhood to look like this: a newborn with brittle bones, a toddler with unexplained night terrors, and a house in the Mississippi woods that seems to breathe around her… When her family moves into a rural fixer‑upper to escape the crushing weight of postpartum depression, anxiety, and psychosis, Calla hopes for peace. Instead, she finds something watching.What begins as small disturbances—scratching in the walls, toys moving on their own, shadows that linger too long—quickly escalates into a haunting of Hellish proportions.As her medically fragile newborn fights for survival, Calla battles demons on every front. Some are psychological: postpartum depression, religious guilt, and the crushing fear of failing her children. Others feel terrifyingly real: a figure in the treeline, a voice whispering through the walls, a presence that seems to know her weaknesses intimately. The house becomes a pressure cooker of spiritual warfare, maternal instinct, and supernatural threat.Based on true events, "e;What Watches Us from the Woods"e; blends modern internet‑age horror with ancient indigenous folklore, exploring the razor‑thin line between psychological collapse and supernatural terror. At its heart is a mother who refuses to surrender, even as she's pushed to the edge of her Faith, sanity, and survival.