At the same time, his son Alex is physically traumatized by a mythic force. In a dramatic scene, Richard Bradley sees James Keeton collapse and die. James Keeton has a number of episodes in which he appears to communicate with Tallis through the mask. He is kept close company by Alex Bradley, a young playmate of Tallis’, who alone can calm James. When he turns up, he is clutching Moondream, one of Tallis’ masks, and is placed in a mental hospital. While he spends only four days in Ryhope wood, over one year of time passes in the outside world. The day Tallis Keeton disappears into Ryhope wood in Lavondyss, her father, James Keeton, disappears into the wood to locate her. Richard is on a quest to locate his lost son in the wood, a very dangerous task because Alex’s overactive imagination generates mythagos dangerous to both himself and others. The story's protagonist is Alex's father, Richard Bradley. This is possible because the rate of time inside the wood is not synchronized with the rate of time outside the wood. Inside Ryhope wood, Tallis Keeton's young friend, Alex Bradley, remains an adolescent when he would otherwise be twenty years old. The narrative begins in the 1950s, merely one year after the events that take place in Lavondyss, but the majority of the story takes place in 1968. The Hollowing shares the third person narrative viewpoint as does its predecessor, Lavondyss. A 2003 paperback edition of The Hollowing with cover art by Larry Rostant
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