

I haven't read enough other titles to determine more linkages, but I wouldn't be surprised if they existed. The two stories cannot be a consistent narrative, but suggest that there might be some sort of underlying framework to Keene's world-building.

Eventually we discover the malevolent spirits inhabiting the trees are a handful of entities that are the same as the second wave of invasion in the Rising stories, led by the spirit Ab, brother of zombie-king Ob, deliverer of occasional hammy one-liners. There is an interesting connection in Dark Hollow to Keene's Rising and City of the Dead. Local forays into the aforementioned woods near their community reveal the presence of a mythical creature that they must confront. The locals, led by Adam Senft, discover the local women are going missing.
