Synopses & Reviews
Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his
sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the Chatalaha River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die.
Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moonshine, Shad must pierce the townsfolk's superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth about his sister's death. But the Blood Dreams he's suffered from since childhood have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an unseen adversary. Plagued by the wraiths that haunt the hollow, Shad finds himself increasingly unsure of his own sanity as he begins to piece together what may have happened to his sister and who exactly his enemy is...
Review
"[F]ew [horror writers] can match Piccirilli's skill with words....Piccirilli has taken Southern Gothic imagery and woven it with his own poetry to create something uniquely his own, a book of terrible beauty and beautiful terrors." Locus
Review
"Brilliant and deeply unsettling." Poppy Z. Brite, author of Lost Souls and Exquisite Corpse
Review
"No one writes like Tom Piccirilli. He has the lyrical soul of a poet and the narrative talents of a man channeling Poe, William Faulkner, and Shirley Jackson....As terrifyingly surreal as an evening alone on the razor-thin boundary between reality and nightmare." T. M. Wright, author of A Manhattan Ghost Story
Synopsis
A man must confront the strange inhabitants of his hometown and discover the awful truth of his sister's death in this new novel from award-winning fantasy author Piccirilli.
About the Author
Tom Piccirilli is the author of eleven novels, including A Choir of Ill Children, The Night Class, A Lower Deep, and Hexes. His two collections of short fiction, Deep Into that Darkness Peering and Mean Sheep, collect only a fraction of his published short work, which spans multiple genres and demonstrate his wide-ranging abilities. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has won the Bram Stoker Award three times.