She makes friends, including with her neighbors, at the small commune that were her grandmother's closest neighbors.She's very grateful to have those friends when the bone creatures start actively hunting her.Mouse, as well as Foxy, Tomas, Enid, and others in town are varied, interesting, complex, and likable characters. She can hardly get away from them fast enough.At the same time, she's going into town regularly, where she meets sane, normal, friendly people, who are a touchstone for normality even as stranger and stranger things happen at the house and in its immediate area.

These include creatures constructed of bones, animal hides, and other random items.Some of them seem to be stalking her.And, out walking in the woods with her dog, Bongo, she finds herself on top a a hill that can't be there, and strangely carved, and strangely wrong, large stones.

Much of it seems not just odd, but potentially crazy, until she starts to encounter the frightening things he wrote about for herself. Mouse hadn't visited in years, and her father, now hospitalized with his own health issues, didn't adequately warn her.Mouse's grandmother was a hoarder.While working through the trash on the first floor, she finds her step-grandfather's journal. Her grandmother had been prickly, unloving, and unfriendly, and moreover had been in a nursing home for a couple of years. Melissa, known as Mouse to family and friends, travels from Pittsburgh to North Carolina to clean out her deceased grandmother's house. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s 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.

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