The spirits in Christine Folan's novel are certainly hair-raising, but her stark, unflinching portrait of family members becoming completely unrecognizable to one another is the most frightening thing of all.- Michelle Hogmire, Book Review Editor for KGB Lit Mag.
There are things that wait in the dark.
After a bitter divorce, Anna Pall retreats to a remote, century-old farmhouse with her two daughters—seventeen-year-old Nina and ten-year-old Sam—desperate for a fresh start.
But the house is no sanctuary.
It watches. It listens. And it feeds.
As creeping shadows invade their lives, each one of the Pall women is forced to confront her own secrets and fears. The fragile threads holding their family together begin to unravel, while something far older and more sinister tightens its grip.
Only then will the shades that hide in this darkness test the delicate fragments of the family's sanity, before leaving at least one body in its wake.
Dark, unsettling, and deeply emotional, this chilling tale of family, trauma, and the supernatural is perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House.
The spirits in Christine Folan's novel are certainly hair-raising, but her stark, unflinching portrait of family members becoming completely unrecognizable to one another is the most frightening thing of all.- Michelle Hogmire, Book Review Editor for KGB Lit Mag.
There are things that wait in the dark.
After a bitter divorce, Anna Pall retreats to a remote, century-old farmhouse with her two daughters—seventeen-year-old Nina and ten-year-old Sam—desperate for a fresh start.
But the house is no sanctuary.
It watches. It listens. And it feeds.
As creeping shadows invade their lives, each one of the Pall women is forced to confront her own secrets and fears. The fragile threads holding their family together begin to unravel, while something far older and more sinister tightens its grip.
Only then will the shades that hide in this darkness test the delicate fragments of the family's sanity, before leaving at least one body in its wake.
Dark, unsettling, and deeply emotional, this chilling tale of family, trauma, and the supernatural is perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House.
