A Child Alone with Strangers

“Fracassi’s novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and ’80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.” —Laird Barron, writer of Worse Angels
“A Child Alone with Strangers starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer–one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places.” —Shaun Hamill, writer of A Cosmology of Monsters
 
When younger Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a distant farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with an odd power dwelling within the woods—utilizing that bond to wreak havoc in opposition to his captors. Unknown to the boy, nevertheless, is that this historic being has its personal causes for wanting the interlopers gone—there’s something hidden beneath the home, tucked away at nighttime, damp root cellar . . . ready for its return.