Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmotherās home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
When Mouseās dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but thereās moreāMouse stumbles across her step-grandfatherās journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rantsā¦until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrorsābecause sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and theyāre looking for you. And if she doesnāt face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
From Hugo Awardāwinning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all nightāfrom both fear and anticipation of what happens next.