T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in this "fast-paced" haunted house story full of "old-school horror" and "brimming with edgy tension and evil" (Library Journal)!

When the terrifying plot of a horror novel comes to life, its author discovers there's a fine line between humanity and monstrosity...

Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.

Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks, and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman's latest novel. When another family is killed in a similar manner, Mills, along with his daughter, rookie detective Samantha Blue, is determined to find the link to the book -- and the killer -- before the story reaches its chilling climax.

As the series of "Scarecrow crimes" continues to mirror the book, Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect. He can't remember much from the night he finished writing the novel, but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium, his grandfather's forbidden room full of numbered books. Thousands of books. Books without words.

As Ben digs deep into Blackwood's history he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long ago -- and it won't stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book.

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• Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseSuspenseParanormal
• Literature & FictionHorror

• Publication Date: January 10, 2023
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• Print Length: 330 Pages
• File Size: 17 KB