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, author ofWorse AngelsA Child Alone with Strangersstarts 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, author ofA Cosmology of MonstersWhen young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woodsusing that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gonethere is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.