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Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement
in a First Novel; Runner-up for Best Novel in This Is Horror awards
2017. One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Travis Stillwell
spends his nights searching out women in honky-tonk bars on the
back roads of Texas. What he does with them doesn't make him proud:
it just quiets the demons for a little while. But when he crosses
paths with one particular mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes up
weak and bloodied, with no memory of the night before. Finding
refuge at a small motel, Travis develops feelings for the owner,
Annabelle, but at night he fights a horrible transformation and his
need to feed. Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting
Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a
revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he'll have to
decide how far into the darkness he'll go for the sake of justice.
From the acclaimed author of The Boatman's Daughter, a gripping,
achingly atmospheric tale about the horrors that lurk in the dark
corners of family history. And a young woman striving to break free
of that tragic past. Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an
abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather,
August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws
everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her
eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. It turns out that the "estate" is
a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but
Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and
Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her
a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint
whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet. But Max sees
what his mother can't: They're no safer here than they had been in
South Carolina. In fact, things might even be worse. There's
something wrong with Redfern Hill. Something lurks beneath the
soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and
destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of
grief and death, to which Nellie's own blood has granted her the
key. From the author of The Boatman's Daughter, The Hollow Kind is
a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the
dark corners of family history. Andy Davidson's gorgeous, Gothic
fable tracing the spectacular fall of the Redfern family will haunt
you long after you turn the final page.
But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and
supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda's
peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an
unthinkable demand, it sets Miranda on a desperate, dangerous path,
forcing her to consider what she is willing to sacrifice to keep
her loved ones safe. With the heady myth making of Neil Gaiman and
the heartrending pacing of Joe Hill, Andy Davidson spins a
thrilling tale of love and duty, of loss and discovery. The
Boatman's Daughter is a gorgeous, horrifying novel, a journey into
the dark corners of human nature, drawing our worst fears and
temptations out into the light.
Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda
Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying
contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers
to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child
from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and
supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda's
peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an
unthinkable demand, it sets Miranda on a desperate, dangerous path,
forcing her to consider what she is willing to sacrifice to keep
her loved ones safe. With the heady mythmaking of Neil Gaiman and
the heartrending pacing of Joe Hill, Andy Davidson spins a
thrilling tale of love and duty, of loss and discovery. The
Boatman's Daughter is a gorgeous, horrifying novel, a journey into
the dark corners of human nature, drawing our worst fears and
temptations out into the light.
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